Chapter 1: What is Academic Writing?Source: Petchko, Katerina. How to Write about Economics and Public Policy (link to full book below). “These four processes—reading, thinking, researching, and writing—occur throughout the entire process of working on an academic paper: You read, you think, you read some more, you write, you research, you read again, and write again—and so on and on. Academic writing is never about just writing.”