What are the purposes of scholarly writing? How do the characteristics (APA formatting, scholarly voice, critical thinking and writing) help achieve the purpose?

Scholarly writing must have a professional tone that has the purpose to exemplify detailed and in depth representation of knowledge on a specific subject (Shannon, 2011). Scholarly writing must present critical thinking, while still presenting factual information in a professional, and mature tone (Shannon, 2011). The mature and professional tone exemplifies a scholarly voice. Though scholarly writing is different than normal literary writing, the scholarly piece of work does not need to be dull, and lack in style (Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 2009). In scholarly writing it is key to...