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1ST Semester – 1st Quarter | EAPP...

1ST Semester – 1st Quarter | EAPP S.Y. 2024-2025 Stating your Thesis LESSON 1: ACADEMIC WRITING - what scholars do to communicate with other scholars THESIS STATEMENT - research report (biologist), interpretative essay (literary - topic; assertion; you claim to be true scholars), media analysis (film scholars) - result of thinking process; not miraculous creation - “working thesis”: need adjustment IS A PROCESS  Posing a question Paraphrasing  Problematizing a concept - to rewrite something in different way; using own words  Evaluating an opinion METHOD 1: USE DIFFERENT VOCABULARY WITH THE  Answering the questions posed SAME MEANING HAS A SPECIFIC PURPOSE  To inform  To argue a specific point  To persuade METHOD 2: CHANGE THE ORDER OF WORDS ADDRESSES A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE  Teacher (for the most part)  Peers (read & evaluate the work)  Academic Community (read the work) IS THINKING - we cannot just write anything what comes to our mind  Abide set of rules & practices  Language: appropriate & formal; not too pretentious  Often longer & more intricate than in popular METHOD 3: USE DIFFERENT GRAMMAR magazines CONSIDERS KNOWLEDGE & BACKGROUND OF AUDIENCE  Use of Jargons – same field/discipline  Use layman’s terms – outsiders IS BACKED UP/SUPPORTED WITH STRONG & VALID EVIDENCE  Deliberate, thorough, & careful thought 6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing  Involves research  Reread until you understand LITERARY TEXT ACADEMIC TEXT  Write paraphrase on note card Tone Reflective & Serious &  Jot down words personal impersonal  Check it with the original Style Symbolic & Formal & imaginative authoritative  Use quotation; for unique terms or phraseology Choice of Simple but may be Uses specialized  Record the source; credit Words figurative language of Writing an Outline discipline - improve writing Organization Flows freely & Follows a pattern of Ideas spontaneously - determine logical organization (sequence) Purpose To show/tell To inform, - check that all ideas are relevant unfolding of explain, - see at glance where you need more evidence details/events argue/assert - saves time & frustration Intended Varies, depending Discipline- - “picture” of essay Audience on complexity of specific Summarizing text - use own words; only the main points - shorter than original; broad overview  1ST Semester – 1st Quarter | EAPP S.Y. 2024-2025 Using Appropriate Language - critical assessments, analyses, or evaluation of different works Avoid using: JARGONS – vocabulary of special group/profession - use proofs and logical reasoning SLANG – playful, informal, specific group Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique EUPHEMISMS – gentler way of expressing; indirect - different perspectives we consider when looking at HOMOPHONE – pronounced the same; differ in piece of literature meanings, origins, spellings 1. FORMALISM DOUBLE-TALK – appears to be earnest & meaningful; but mixture of sense & nonsense - intrinsic properties; treats each work as distinct work - understanding through the text itself LESSON 2: WRITING A REACTION PAPER, - form, structure, style, tone, imagery, meaning REVIEW OR CRITIQUE - close-reading Things to Consider in Effectively Presenting  author’s techniques Your Point  central passage  contribution of parts as a whole LANGUAGE  rhymes & rhythms - unbiased  relationship of form & content VIEWPOINTS  use of imagery - angle, outlook, point of view  interconnectedness of parts COUNTERARGUMENT  paradox, ambiguity, irony  unity - argument opposed to another argument 2. FEMINISM SATIRE - women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and - less formal; inject humor & relax reader economic oppression STRAW MAN - patriarchal; men: superior, women: inferior - insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor, or argument  how culture determines gender - weakly supported; can be easily knock down  gender equality - to impugn the strength  gender issues CONCESSION  how women are oppressed by patriarchy - acknowledges the merits of opposing argument  patriarchal ideology CREDIBILITY 3. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM - reputation impacting one’s ability to be believed - viewer’s reaction a. FACT - readers: not passive & distant; active consumers  interaction b/w reader & the text - objective data, valid, true/false  reader’s delivery of sounds & visuals b. OPINION 4. MARXIST CRITICISM - personal views/judgements - Karl Marx - economic classes; capitalist system OPPOSITION - socio-economic system - opposite or contrasting position  Social class as represented in the work Reaction Paper, Review, Critique  Social class of the writer  Social class of the characters - specialized form of writing; evaluates  Conflicts/interactions b/w economic classes  Scholarly work (academic books, articles)  Work of art (performance, art, play, dance, 5. PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM sports, film, exhibits) - psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud  designs (industrial, furniture, fashion design) - human behavior; wish fulfillment, sexuality,  graphic designs (posters, billboards, unconscious, repression commercials, digital media) 6. HISTORICAL CRITICISM - 250-750 function words - period of time; historical events - social, cultural, & intellectual context  1ST Semester – 1st Quarter | EAPP S.Y. 2024-2025 7. BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM - purpose: to stipulate meaning by limiting, extending, - author’s life & background redirecting Structure W/no prescribed 10 Ways in Elucidating a Concept structure Intro (5%) Intro Definition Examples  Title  Basic details (title, FORMAL - follows a A robot is a  Writer’s name director, artist) pattern/equation machine that  Thesis statement  Main assessment - term + genus + looks like a human summary (10%) Analysis/Interpretation differentia being and  Objective/purpose  Critical Approach (differentiating performs complex  Methods  Aspects; characteristics) acts of human  Major findings success/failure beings. Review/Critique (75%)  Unanswered SYNONYM word that shares Hashish -  Does explicitly state questions/plotlines same meaning marijuana thesis  Relate in other ORIGIN / history/ Yoga comes from  Assumptions ideas/events SEMANTIC evolution of the Sanskrit “to join”  Contribution to the  What stood out HISTORY word field Conclusion/Evaluation ILLUSRATION describes; Known for  Problems/issues  Reinforcement of examples shedding their presented main assessment leaves in the fall,  Kind of info;  Comparison to deciduous, trees, conclusion (10%) similar work include oaks and  Overall impression  Recommendation maples.  Scholarly/literary FUNCTION How it works/ A thermometer value operates measures  Benefits temperature  Suggestion change. ANALYSIS break down The republican Guidelines in Writing whole into parts; form of  Read carefully  Whether findings are aspects into government has  Relate to what you know supported levels; process three branches:  How book treats the topic  Suggest for into steps executive,  Type of analysis/mode of improvement legislative, and presentation  Point out what writer judiciary. missed out LIKENESS/ almost the same Brighter than For artworks & other media SIMILARITY 100M suns,  Speculative verbs (evoke, create, appear, & suggest) quasars stand like  Describe it to the reader; simple terms (don’t spoil) beacons on the shore of universe. General Note (Did the work…) ANALOGY/ More specific The germs are like  hold your interest METAPHOR villains invading or  annoy/excite you body, attacking  prompt you to raise questions our unseen  lead you to realizations defenders.  remind you of other materials CONTRAST Opposite Unlike those of meaning; direct gas, plasma is LESSON 3: CONCEPT PAPER electrically CONCEPT charged. - general notion/idea; conception NEGATION What a term is Wild rice, an - combine characteristics; a construct not; not direct American delicacy, CONCEPT PAPER is not rice at all - defines idea/concept but the seed of a - clarify “whatness” tall aquatic grass. - definition, expanded definition, analytic description 

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