FEATURES AND DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS  OF GOOD ACADEMIC WRITING  

Recently, academic writing (AW) has received a considerable  attention. It is the means by which many scholars, researchers,  academics, and students at universities present their works.

This paper  first defines the term of ‘academic writing’ as it is necessary to  understand its concept. In the second part, the work highlights the  significant features of academic writing such as organization, task achievement,  cohesion and coherence, and many others. Third, it focuses on language  discourse functions, which are used to express particular ideas such as  description, definition, narration and so on. These two parts, the features  of academic writing and language discourse functions, will show how these ideas add  great value to the text and make it easier for the readers to understand  and follow the piece of writing on academic context. Then, the work  moves to discuss the most prominent challenges that might arise from  such features and language discourse functions for Non-Native Speakers  (NNS) of English.

The challenges could be problems of spelling and  punctuation, mis-uses of tenses and the omitting verb ‘to be’, lack of  electronic resources, and some others.  

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