THE CRITICAL ROLE OF GRAMMATICAL ACCURACY IN ACADEMIC WRITING AND ITS IMPACT ON SCHOLARLY CREDIBILITY
Keywords:
Academic Writing, Grammatical Accuracy, Scholarly Credibility, EFL Learners, Textual Coherence, Pedagogical Interventions.Abstract
This study investigates the profound impact of grammatical accuracy on the overall quality, coherence, and professional credibility of academic writing, with a specific focus on universitylevel students and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. In scholarly communication, the precise articulation of ideas is paramount; however, persistent syntactic and morphological errors frequently compromise the transmission of complex research insights. Utilizing a qualitative methodological approach that combines an extensive review of contemporary literature with empirical, informal observations of student essays in academic writing contexts, this paper examines the cascading effects of errors in subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, and sentence structures. The findings reveal that structural ambiguities not only induce cognitive fatigue in readers, forcing repetitive text re-perusal, but also severely diminish the perceived professionalism and authority of the author. The paper concludes with actionable
pedagogical recommendations aimed at integrating systematic grammatical reinforcement within academic writing curricula to enhance scholarly output..
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