Summary of What's the BIG IDEA?

Dee Broughton in the article ‘what’s the BIG IDEA?’ mainly talks about how academic writing becomes academic discourse. New ideas must be presented according to the principles of rational academic argument. To support this idea academic genres like summary, synthesis, evaluation and analysis are used. Evidences are required to connect these ideas. Students learn these techniques to become respected, contributing members of the academic community in the field of their choice.