On the issue of the development of academic writing among school students

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of the development of academic writing among students of schools. The authors studied the essential characteristics of academic writing. Academic writing is defined as the creation of written texts in academic discourse, the organization and expression of the original knowledge obtained according to the research criteria of a certain scientific field, in relation to the specifics of the subject of cognitive activity. The formats and requirements for the specifics of writing an academic text are highlighted, such as: building on the basis of a model with a clear structural subdivision of structural and semantic blocks, lexico-grammatical fragments, stylistic features, logical alignment of arguments of one’s own opinion and explanation of evidence. The technical requirements for a correct and standardized academic text based on short paragraphs are defined. Features of keyword design, prohibition of personal pronouns, and more. The authors analyzed the difficulties of using academic writing at the present stage due to the local and non-systemic nature of its development in Kazakhstan. The school should lay the foundations of literacy, including reading (the ability to find, understand and critically evaluate information), writing (the ability to produce and organize  their own thoughts), mathematical skills (the ability to think logically and operate with signs), but in fact it is not able to provide students with even a basic set of academic writing skills. The authors analyzed the causes of academic illiteracy (memorization and memorization, lack of interdisciplinary connections and non-linguistic from the point of view of literacy of presentation in oral or written form, the nature of knowledge assessment in most subjects, the profile of training).