Academic reading and writing are such important things for us (the college students). College students are claimed to be able to write anything that worth reading. In order to make a good essay, article, or even thesis, we should understand and have many concepts or knowledge. We know that there are many ways to enrich our knowledge, but the easiest way is by reading. In this internet era, we can always browse online news and articles by our PCs, smart phones, or tablets in every where or every time. Besides, I believe that every university has large library, students can access the books easily. So, it is not a big problem when it comes to reading.
However, reading means that we have to understand what we read. Reading is categorized success if we can explain the content of the book/article, at least the main idea. After all, Mr. Eran Williams (RELO of US Embassy) said that reading is the fastest way of learning. He also said that anyone who likes to read, he/she will be able to write easily. In academic writing, we have to consider ourselves that we write for audiences. It means that we must target a more general audience than just your lecturer or marker. Also, the writing must require original idea and the content must not too long and not blabber. If you want to write nicely, there are five steps of writing process that you may follow. First is prewriting, we think and decide on a topic to write about. Second is drafting, we just put the information into our own words. The third one is revising; it means that we rearrange words or sentences. Next is proofreading, we have to make sure that all sentences are complete and in correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. The last one is publishing, in this section, we read and share our writing aloud to people.