English for Academic Purposes

English for Academic and Professional Purposes

• Review/reaction papers, critiques are critical assessments of works.
• Good reviews aren't solely based on personal emotion.
• Academic texts are essential for understanding specific disciplines. They provide concepts and theories relevant to a field.
• Text structure involves how ideas and information are organized within a text.
• Summarizing involves reducing a text to about one-third or one-quarter its size while retaining main ideas.
• Discussions/analyses are detailed explanations of causes, particularly in research articles.
• Reviews/critiques should be fair and balanced assessments of situations, events, people, and things.
• Academic texts have formal and logical structures with interconnected parts.

Online Learning

• Online learning has significantly changed education.
• The COVID-19 pandemic increased remote learning.
• Online learning provides wider access to education but has some challenges.
• Increased access, but also negative effects like limited access to technology and reduced engagement.
• Better infrastructure and support systems are needed for effective online education.

Marxist Criticism

• Marxist criticism examines how power, politics, and money influence literature.

Importance of Desserts in School

• School cafeterias should provide desserts that all students can enjoy.
• Some desserts can improve students' mood and focus.
• Allergies and other health conditions need to be considered.

Writing Thesis Statements

• Making announcements is not a guideline when writing a thesis statement.

Writing Summaries

• The SAAC method is useful for understanding summary formats: State, Assign, Action, Complete.
• Summaries need to include the title, author, what the author does, and keywords/important details.
• "In other words" can help clarify concepts.

Academic Language

• Strong thesis statements are specific.
• Formalism focuses on the structure and principles of texts, like books/movies.
• Outlines show the parts of a text's relationship and importance.
• Academic language is not conversational but is descriptive and comprehensive.
• Analyzing a text's context is important and shows quality.
• The main purpose of academic writing is to inform, explain, and present ideas.
• Describing complex ideas and concepts differentiates academic from casual writing.

K-12 Curriculum

• The K-12 curriculum includes junior high and senior high schools.
• Senior high school has academic, technical-vocational, and sports tracks.

Writing Reviews

• Value communication is key: Fair and balanced assessments are crucial.
• False evidence weakens a review.

Research Papers

• Introductions in research papers need to explain the study's significance (e.g., rationale/background).
• Research papers should demonstrate appropriate language.

Critical Approaches

• Formalism analyzes elements or technical aspects.
• Language as a technical aspect is analyzed in formalism.
• Critical writing structures are useful for evaluating works.
• Reader-response focuses on how the audience interprets the work.

Outlines

• Sentence outlines describe sentences logically connected.
• Topic outlines use keywords to outline.

Humanities and Social Sciences

• These fields use critical approaches to understand the human world.
• Clarifying meanings, interpreting, and using terms correctly are important.