ABSTRACT
Scholarly writing is easy to recognize but difficult to define. It has a deceptive simplicity that enables the reader to follow the author’s arguments from introduction to conclusion without any “jarring” caused by awkward language or structuring. It persuades the reader that the author’s conclusions are the only acceptable conclusions to draw. Inherent in scholarly writing is the ability to design and maintain an overarching framework in which pertinent arguments are embedded, the ability to evaluate statements and conclusions in terms of the framework, and the ability to monitor one’s work from the reader’s perspective. Thus, scholarly writing is a metacognitive process requiring a sound knowledge base of the mechanics of writing (spelling, grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, etc.).
