State of Academic Writing in the Philippine Context

State of Academic Writing In the Philippine Context

Having a knowledge on academic writing may give you many opportunities on choosing job, although academic writings is required when studying on Senior High School and College students for them to develop their knowledge when they are making an academic papers that are based on their tracks or degrees that they were taking. But then again, many students are still having a hard time when it comes on academic writings, although students are usually prefer into creative writings so that when they work on their academic writings the result is they still having some errors. Even though they spent a lot of time and effort on it are they still lack of information and they don’t have that enough time to study their topics or lessons that’s why they can’t avoid plagiarism or their research’s contents are being out of the topic at their academic papers and being bias.

Grace Saqueton (2008) wrote “why do they say that our English is bad” an excerpt, where she found out that many students commit errors when they are writing an essays or an academic writings. Having an error when doing an academic writing cannot avoid especially for us Filipinos, that not all of us are fluent on speaking and writing in English or lack of vocabulary words that may really result as an errors. Even though Filipinos commit errors they are still working hard to correct it and learn some more vocabulary words.

Students think that academic writing is literally hard, therefore they still having an eagerness to make academic writings correctly for their grades and subjects matters for them to achieve what they wanted to become someday. Usually academic writings really deals on degrees that what you are taking like law, psychology, philosophy, chemistry, physics, medicine and etc., academic writing deals on any careers. Errors are errors but it can be correct, and as a student we can’t blame ourselves nor the other peoples that we didn’t commit errors while making an academic paper but as time goes by the errors that we commit are lesser than before because we learn from our previous mistakes and we learn through time. That in the other hand teachers wanted their students to master English as their second language, that as the same time students are learning on their academic writing.

As said on the introduction, having a plagiarism in doing an academic writings may avoid in some points like by paraphrasing, citation, quoting and referencing. Study your academic paper very well, if the time wasn’t enough try to not widen the research topic’s all about, stick on what its main point. Plagiarism is not a crime, and according to Philippines, Department of Justice (DOJ) it was true that plagiarism is not a crime but plagiarism is may also conclude as a copyright infringement. Penalties for plagiarism is imprisonment for three (3) to six (6) years with a fine of P50, 000 to P150, 000, if prosecuted under law.  Avoiding plagiarism is not simply a matter of making sure your references are all correct, or changing enough words so the examiner will not notice your paraphrase; it is about deploying your academic skills to make your work as good as it can be and never let your academic paper be out of the topic or having a logical fallacies. It is important that your academic was not out the topic, because as your academic paper was not align at the topic it becoming none sense or it just a waste even though you put all of your effort on it, it’s not sense. Learn to balance your work by opposing the problem, resolve it and have a conclusion, focusing on the problem but never be a bias on answering your research because it may affect your readers. And academic writing is not a bias paper, it is a study and research that let its audience to be inform and clarify its problem.