2Q EAPP PDF - English for Academic and Professional Purposes

English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee [EAPP] CREATED BY: Lucero, Diether Mark, 12STEM2 POSITION PAPER - Examine the ability to support - An essay that presents a your counterclaims stand/posi...

English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee [EAPP] CREATED BY: Lucero, Diether Mark, 12STEM2 POSITION PAPER - Examine the ability to support - An essay that presents a your counterclaims stand/position on an issue 3. Consider your audience in - Aims to convince the determining your viewpoint audience - Simple to complex formats ORGANIZATION OF A POSITION - Tool to ask for support for PAPER social change 1. Introduction - Presents one side of an - Introduce the topic arguable opinion - Provide background on the - Much like a debate topic and explain its - Supported by reason and importance empirical evidence - Assert your thesis - Subjective since it is based on 2. Body reasonable, arguable opinion - Counter Argument - Discussion may only deal with o Summarize the the writer’s stand counterclaims - Flexible format o Provide supporting PROCESSES INVOLVED IN WRITING A information for POSITION PAPER counterclaims o Refute the 1. Choosing a topic counterclaims - Establish the arguability of a o Give evidence for topic that interests you argument - Ensure that you will be able to - Argument present a strong argument o Give your educated 2. Developing an Argument opinion - Ensure that you position is o Provide support using well-supported empirical evidence - List both sides of the topic English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee SURVEY REPORT - References cited in APA 7th - A type of academic writing edition used in the survey report that uses research to provide 4. Appendices information about a topic - Documentation that was - Questions formulated based taken throughout the survey on the research objectives report - Involves report writing GENERAL GUIDELINES IN WRITING A PARTS OF A SURVEY REPORT SURVEY REPORT 1. Abstract 1. Speak in present tense - Maximum of 250 words 2. Do not use direct quotations - Hyland’s Model (Introduction, 3. Fromal, straightforward, and Purpose, Method, Product, impersonal Conclusion) 4. Use reporting verbs 2. Survey Report 5. Make survey report more - Introduction specific by using numerical o Background of the data study o Statement of the TYPES OF REPORTS Problem - Methods Reports o Researchers - Important official documents o Respondents or detailed o Data gathering accounts/statements used in Procedure the academe and in the - Results workplace o Result Presentation TYPES o Use of Graphs and - Periodic Tables o Summarizes results - Discussion periodically based on a o Data analysis certain time frame o Implication/s of the - Sales Result o Financial report or a o Restatement of the summary of sales thesis statement activity over a period of o Recommendations time of an operational 3. References business English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee - Progress TYPES OF SURVEY QUESTIONS o Documents (Author’s Note: Just Look back to the development of a surveys you’ve answered before, project chances are you’ve already - Survey encountered most, if not all, types of o Relies heavily on survey questions) respondents’ answers 2 Types of survey questions - Budget - Open- Ended o Internal report used to o Asks respondents to compare the estimated, provide answers using budgeted, projections their own accounts and with actual words performance o Elicit more information - Field than close ended o Report assigned in questions can gather disciplines of the o Can be a follow-up applied social sciences question to a close- - Feasibility ended question o Proposed solution and - Closed- Ended evaluates its feasibility o Made of prepared - Evaluation answers o Assesses a particular o Provides a list of options program Types of Closed-Ended Questions o Recommendations - Demographic questions o SWOT analysis o Basic questions that ask - Laboratory people to reveal o Well-documented information about their assessment of certain background phenomena through - Yes-No Questions experimentation o Asked if you’re trying to o Lab reports find out whether people - Incident own various products o Workplace injuries, and specific places illnesses o Obviously, answerable o Ex: incident report of the by “yes” or “no” OPSA - Multiple Choice Questions English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee o Lets survey takers select WRITING AND PRESENTING YOUR one answer from a pool PROJECT REPORT - Checklist Suggested Structure o Questions that let - Abstract respondents select - Introduction MULTIPLE options from a - Literature Review pool - Methodology - Ranking Questions - Results o Asked to identify the - Discussion order of importance or - Conclusions preference - References o Ranks the preference - Appendices among a pool of Abstract choices - What were my research - Ratin Scale questions o Questions asked if you - How did I answer them? are rating or evaluating - What did the project yield? a specific product, - What conclusions can be service or event drawn o “On a scale of 1-10, how Introduction would you rate your - The research questions pain” -Baymax 2014 - Research objectives - Likert Scale - Brief background to guide the o Do you agree questions audience o Strongly Agree, Agree, Literature Review Disagree, Strongly - To set the study to a bigger Disagree context o 4-point Likert Scale; No - Studies that supplement your Neutral option project’s validity o 5-point Likert Scale; Methodology With Neutral option - Setting - Participants - Materials - Procedures Purpose English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee - Report the facts the project 2. Use of visual aids discovered 3. Presentation itself - Support facts with quotes APA 7th Edition from the participants Referencing styles Discussion - APA - Interpret results and relate o American Psychological findings Association - Indicate implications of the o Commonly used in the project Philippines Conclusion - MLA - Answer the research o Moder Language questions (See Introduction) Association - Meet the research objectives - CMOS (See introduction… Again) o The Chicago Manual of - Consider the findings (See Style Results ) - Harvard References o Harvard Citation Style - Cite all sources in APA 7th Basic Rules in citing sources in APA - Prevent plagiarism 7th Appendices 1. When citing within an - Include only essential assignment, use the author/s supporting material last name followed by the - Keep it t a minimum year of publication GENERAL GUIDELINES IN WRITING A - General Physics is healthy for PROJECT REPORT one’s mental health (Lucero, 2027) - Avoid Jargon (Words that only o Or a specific group of people will - Lucero (2027) states that understand ex. Callout words General Physics is healthy for on certain games) one’s mental health - Check grammar and spelling o Or - Preserve anonymity - General Physics is healthy - Regularly revise drafts Lucero (2027) emphasizes it THREE KEY STAGES OF ROAL for one’s mental health PRESENTATION 2. Three or more authors, cite 1. Planning and preparation only the last name of the English for Academic and Professional Purposes | Academics Committee author followed by “et al” (and become familiar as you study others in Latin). If no date is …” (Hally, 2009, p. 7) found, simply write “n.d” 6. Longer quote. Any quotation - Physics is deemed the best longer than 40 words should subject in STEM (Lucero et al, be formatted as a block n.d.) quote. - Lucero et al. (n.d.) deemed Physics as the best subject in STEM 3. The names of groups that served as authors, such as corporations, are spelled fully the first time they appear then abbreviated afterwards. - First appearance: (World health Organization [WHO] , n.d.) - Seconds appearance: (WHO, n.d.) 4. Citing a secondary source, acknowledge the source as a secondary source. - Lucero (2021, as cited in Caluag, 2019) states that Valorant is healthy for one’s social interaction 5. Short quote, to indicate a short quote, eclose the quotation within quotation marks. Use an ellipsis (…) to indicate any words that you’ve purposefully omitted from the oroginal work - “Self-directed learning is also a term with which you will