Does academic study teach skills?

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

Hi, everyone. In China, academic study is all about theories, so I don't know if 'skills' is appropriate here.


Academic study is the foundation of innovation. It equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to bring new ideas to reality.

 

[Rover_KE]

If this is your own writing, please say so. It looks like part of an essay or treatise, so I've moved it to Editing & Writing Topics.

 

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

Yes, I wrote these two sentences.

 

[probus]

Yes. My son-in-law is an academic. He teaches academic writing to first-year students at a university. Apparently the university feels that many new students arrive with inadequate writing skills.

 

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

Thanks. Are my sentences error free? Which is better?

Academic study is the foundation of innovation. It equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to bring new ideas to reality.
Academic study is the foundation of innovation. It equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to bring new ideas to fruition.

 

[probus]

No errors. I see no reason to prefer one over the other.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Yes. My son-in-law is an academic. He teaches academic writing to first-year students at a university. Apparently the university feels that many new students arrive with inadequate writing skills.

Most of them leave with inadequate writing skills, too. A professor friend says the last time she got a well-written senior thesis was in 2002.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Yes. My son-in-law is an academic. He teaches academic writing to first-year students at a university. Apparently the university feels that many new students arrive with inadequate writing skills.

PS:

Coincidentally, I'm reading a very funny book about an Intro to Lit professor. He has a classroom full of students who refuse to read Hamlet because "It's stupid.":

The Nix, by Nathan Hill.