Academic Writing: Global Views and Romanian Trends

Academic writing is a field not sufficiently explored nor investigated in Romania to date. This article aims at offering the fundamental characteristics of academic writing by analyzing global views and contrasting them to Romanian perspectives. It discusses the main-stream approaches to academic writing, looking at its development from a historical perspective and then analyzing comparatively contemporary approaches. Furthermore, it investigates Romanian efforts in the direction of developing academic writing awareness and suggests a possible path to be taken by Romanian higher education institutions.