The State of Academic Writing in Philippines Context What is Academic Writing? refers to the forms of expository and argumentative prose used by university students, faculty, and researchers to convey a body of information about a particular subject. Generally, academic writing is expected to be precise, semi-formal, impersonal, and objective. College students' writing development, identified four general purposes of writing in university courses to make knowledge conscious, to help remember facts, to analyze concepts, and to construct new knowledge. Specifically, students used writing to translate concepts into their own language, move from gathering facts to analyses of them, and adjust themselves to the task demands of specific courses and fields. are refracted through the politics of language and location. Our aim in this book is to explore this refraction, drawing on two disciplinary fields: psychology and education. T...