English for Academic and Professional Purposes, First Semester 2022-2023 PDF

FIRST QUARTER ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES First Semester 2022-2023 LESSON 1: LANGUAGE USED IN ACADEMIC TEXT Academic Writing has 3 purposes; To inform, to argue, an...

FIRST QUARTER ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES First Semester 2022-2023 LESSON 1: LANGUAGE USED IN ACADEMIC TEXT Academic Writing has 3 purposes; To inform, to argue, and to persuade. Academic writing requires the following features A deliberate, thorough and careful thoughts, set of rules and practices in writing and a language that is appropriate and formal but not too pretentious. Some of the examples of academic writing are: reviews, conference paper, and research paper. Academic writing involves research, requires deliberate, through and careful thought and addresses a specific audience. How does academic writing differ from creative essay, business letters, and legal documents? - The knowledge of the writer is assumed to be greater than that of the readers. How does academic writing differ from non-academic writing in terms of style? - Academic writing is formal and objective while non-academic writing is personal impressionistic and subjective. LESSON 2: TEXT STRUCTURE DESCRIPTION: text structure features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture. COMPARISON/CONTRAST: If you are to examine the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, and ideas. PROBLEM & SOLUTION: A problem is described, and a response or solution is proposed or explained. ORDER/SEQUENCE: Text structures give readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure. LESSON 3: TECHNIQUES IN SUMMARIZING ACADEMIC TEXT A summary or précis tells the main idea of a piece of writing. That means, you can summarize a text by compacting the main ideas in a passage into your own words. PLAGIARISM: Taking ideas or words of others without acknowledging its source. PARAPHRASING: restating text giving the meaning in another form. LESSON 4: STATING THE THESIS STATEMENT THESIS STATEMENT: -It is the central argument of the paper. -It is the controlling idea of the paper. -It gives the readers the idea of what your paper is all about. -It makes a claim that others might disagree -It should offer a debatable claim Thesis statements must make a claim or argument. They are not statements of fact. THESIS STATEMENT FACTUAL STATEMENT 1. Students should wear school uniform as they 1. There are high numbers of homeless people eradicate the visual differences in income between living in the Philippines. students, facilitating equality among students. 2. The internet serves a means of connecting people 2. Karl Marx was a political thinker who believed around the world, fostering new friendship and that capitalism exploits working people. strengthening relationships and an exchange of ideas that wouldn't have occurred prior to its beginning. 3. The government must devote more funds to building hospitals than building roads. LESSON 5: OUTLINING TEXT Outlining is a way to organize one’s thoughts in a coherent, logical way. Outlining is an easy way to organize your writing plan before you actually start. Outlining will save you time in the revision process, reducing the possibility that your ideas will need to be rearranged once you've written them.  Creating an outline, is one way to organize the main ides and details and help improve your comprehension. A topic outline helps you see a larger picture through a series of short phrases, while a sentence outline goes into the detail of the paper, hence, makes use of full sentences. LESSON 6: CRITICAL WRITING A CRITIQUE SUCH AS FORMALISM, FEMINISM, ETC. Reader – Response- critical approach in studying literature primarily deals with the process of creating meaning and experiencing the text as it is being read. Feminism- critical approach is mainly concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text. Sociological criticism- It claims that the social environment must be considered in analyzing and interpreting. Biographical - approach contends that to better understand any text, the author’s life and background must be taken into account Formalism Approach- the meaning of literary texts becomes timeless and universal. LESSON 7: WRITES A CRITIQUE OF A WORK OF ART, AN EVENT OR A PROGRAM A critique or a review is a text that expresses judgment on anything that can be procured so that its readers will have initial information before making any related decisions about it. Parts of the Critique: Introduction, Review, Recommendation The critique should be organized in the following manner: -Strengths and weaknesses should be part of the critique. -Remember that the critique should be accessible to the audience. -The first paragraph should provide readers a sense of ideas you want to tackle. It should provide a sufficient background discussion of what you are to review. LESSON 8: DETERMINES THE WAYS A WRITER CAN ELUCIDATE ON A CONCEPT BY DEFINITION, EXPLICATION AND CLARIFICATION DEFINITION: The method of identifying a given term and making its meaning clearer. CLARIFICATION: -The points are organized from a general abstract idea to specific and concrete examples. - It involves offering back to the speaker the essential meaning, as understood by the listener, of what they have just said. -The signal words for clarification are in particular, specifically, to clarify, and to be specific. EXPLICATION: Method of explanation describes that those sentences, verses, quotes, or passages are taken from a literary or academic work and then interpreted and explained in a detailed way.