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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES LESSON 1: ACADEMIC WRITING WHAT IS ACADEMIC WRITING? Skills used in academic context that communicated ideas, information, and research to the academic community WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ACADEMIC WRITING? Inform - give informat...

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES LESSON 1: ACADEMIC WRITING WHAT IS ACADEMIC WRITING? Skills used in academic context that communicated ideas, information, and research to the academic community WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ACADEMIC WRITING? Inform - give information supported by facts Argue - supports a specific argument Address - allows you to target the needs of your audience FEATURES Planned and focused - smooth flow, well presented, and directed topic Structured - logical order Evidence - supported by facts Formal - formal language and tense IMPORTANCE Train individuals to write academically Tool to convey knowledge Learns to analyze and understand Helps learn higher studies TYPES Descriptive - describes Narrative - tells an account of something Argumentative/Persuasive - influence belief CHARACTERISTICS - Language - clear, precise, and free from grammatical mistakes Point of View - third person Approach - deductive, flow towards conclusion Deductive and analytical - well discussed LESSON 2: DIFFERENT TEXT PATTERNS Cause and Effect - emphasizes how one event leads to another Chronological - it focuses on the order of events that have happened Narrative - focuses on the narration of event and stories Problem and solution - identity and explains a problem and explores reasons and solutions Compare and contrast - showing the similarities and differences of topics Definition or description - gives information about concept by giving meaning or examples DIFFERENT WRITING VS ACADEMIC Creative writing - evokes emotion, artistic and entertaining, uses different literary technique Academic writing - factual, informative, clear, precise, straightforward, objective, specialized category  ASPECT Creative writing Academic writing Tone Reflective and personal Serious, a bit personal Style Symbolic and imaginative Formal and authoritative Choice of words Simple yet figurative Specialized language Organization of Ideas Free flow Patterned Purpose Unfold story/events To inform, explain, argue/assert Intended audience Depending on text Discipline specific Technical writing - conveys easy access to information, meaning can be immediately grasped, clear information, straightforward, uncomplicated ACADEMIC TECHNICAL Has a receiver Both differ in format, Has a reader may/may not have a purpose, choice of Reading information reader words, pictures, Has illustrations Persuade & inform structures, etc. Active vocabulary Elaborative objective , non-sexist Subjective Uncomplicated Multiple meaning Active voice Complex structure Passive voice LESSON 3: THESIS STATEMENT AND OUTLINING Controlling idea on your paper Main idea/point the writer wants to argue ELEMENTS Topic - main subject of content Argument - opinion (argumentative) / purpose (explanatory) Evidence - facts, proof, or support NOTES TO REMEMBER Thesis statement should only be in one sentence It is often placed at the beginning of paragraph Avoid using first pov Avoid unclear message Avoid being too broad or too general Shouldn’t contain just the facts, include your claim OUTLINING Summary that gives essential features of text Relation of text parts that are of equal importance READING OUTLINING - outlines main ideas of what is already written WRITING OUTLINING - overview of draft containing essential points and ideas to support them STEPS IN CREATING A READING OUTLINE Read the entire text and skim Locate main idea or thesis statement Find key phrases Locate topic sentence of each paragraph Group the related ideas Arrange according to levels Evaluate supporting details Check the sequence of information TWO TYPES OF WRITING OUTLINE Sentence Outline - written in sentences Topic/Scratch Outline - written in words/phrases STEPS IN CREATING A WRITTEN OUTLINE Determine the purpose, your audience, POV, and tone Begin with thesis statement Review notes Group similar ideas Lavel all main topics (roman numerals) Identify subtopics (uppercase letters) Identify supporting points (arabic numbers) Identify particular details (lowercase letters) Check your outline if there’s unsupported points, add if needed Recheck Show some readers and get some feedback LESSON 4: LITERARY CRITICISM Argue point of view on a work of literature Supports literary assertion with evidence Recognizes author, structure, and context Uses literary theory as a framework (principle that is used to tudy the nature of a literary work) FORMALIST - considers the work in isolation, disregarding author’s intent, author’s background, context, and anything else outside of work itself PRINCIPLES Work is independent Fixed meaning Greatest literary text are timeless and universal ADVANTAGES Can be done without research Value literature apart from its context MARXIST - series of struggle between the oppressed and the oppressing, and it reflects on how dominant groups exploit subordinate groups. Alienation through money, power, and politics (KARL MARX) FEMINIST Role, position, and influence of women in literary text Asserts that literature were mostly written by men Woman is neglected in a society that gives too much importance on men Argue that gender determines everything PRINCIPLES  Western civilization is patriarchal Concept of gender is a cultural idea Patriarchal ideas influences literature Most of literature has been gender based STAGES Female accepts the role and definition of male authorities created Revel against male authority and challenges male definition and roles No longer concerned with male definition and roles READER RESPONSE Reader\s interpretation changes over time Reader’s from different generation has different interpretation Meaning of the text relies on the reader Processing meaning and experiencing the text ADVANTAGES Recognizes test in different views DISADVANTAGES Interpretation is too subjective Doesn’t provide criteria in evaluating one’s work MORALIST/PHILOSOPHICAL - greater purpose of literature is to teach morality and answer philosophical issues PSYCHOANALYTICAL - views work through the lens of psychology and psychological motivations of the characters and authors