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English for Academic and Professional Purposes ACADEMIC TEXT Prepared by: Ma’am Vhel Mendoza A) “Relationships and exchange flows between transnational family members are heavily reliant on digital technology, telecommunications and air travel. Migrants’ capacity to instantaneous...

English for Academic and Professional Purposes ACADEMIC TEXT Prepared by: Ma’am Vhel Mendoza A) “Relationships and exchange flows between transnational family members are heavily reliant on digital technology, telecommunications and air travel. Migrants’ capacity to instantaneously communicate with distant family members by text messaging, mobile phone conversations, skyping and assorted forms of social media have been axiomatic to B) the“My mothermaintenance initiation, came from aand small sugarcane expansion plantation city of transnational in Victorias, family Negros(Bryceson. 2019) exchange.” Occidental, in an obscure road town called Daan Banwa. She now lives in a concrete-paved upscale Canadian suburb with manicured lawns and an SUV in every driveway.” (Benzidane, 2008)  Definition Written language that provides information, which contains ideas and concepts that are related to a particular discipline. Academic text is typically used for textbooks, tests, in classrooms, and any other discipline related to the field of academics. Academic text is a formal way to present words and terms typical for the field. Example:  Content and Style of Academic Texts Include Have a Include Usually concepts exhibit all clear information properties of and structure from a well-written theories d credible text --- related to introducti sources organization, the specific unity, on, body, that are coherence, discipline and properly and they conclusio cited. strict explore. n. adherence to the rules of language and mechanics. Field of Discipline is a specific area of study or expertise within a broader subject. It focuses on a particular topic or type of work. Examples of different disciplines and the types of academic texts they commonly use: Science (Biology) Academic Texts: Research Engineering (Civil Engineering) papers, laboratory reports, Academic Texts: Technical review articles. Example: A research paper reports, conference papers, case studies. detailing an experiment on Example: A technical report the effects of a newHumanities drug on (Literature) on the structural analysis of a cell growth. Academic Texts: Critical new bridge design. essays, literary reviews, research papers. Example: A critical essay analyzing the themes and  Language Used in Academic Texts from Various Disciplines Linguistic Register ✔ According to Trudgill linguistic register are varieties that are linked to occupations, professions, or topics have been termed registers. The register of law, for example, is different from the register of medicine, which in turn is different from the language of engineering---and ✔ so on. Schiffman (1997) it is a set of According to Harold specialized vocabulary and preferred (or dispreferred) syntactic and rhetorical devices/structures, used by specific socioprofessional groups for special purposes. A register is a property or characteristic of a language, and not of an individual or a class of speakers.  Linguistic Register MEDICAL LANGUAGE LEGAL LANGUAGE JOURNALISTIC LANGUAGE - is used to describe -means a language used components and processes by the persons connected - This type of language of the human body, medical to the legal profession. helps understand how procedures, diseases, The language used by the journalists create their disorders, and lawyer, jurist, and the stories or reports, shape pharmacology. Simply put, legislative draftsman in points of view, deliver it is the vocabulary that their professional expected news and how medical professionals use capacities. Law being a media language is different to describe the body, what technical subject speaks from other languages we it does, and the treatments through its own register. encounter. they prescribe.  Linguistic Register LITERARY LANGUAGE JARGON - register of a language that - special words or is used in literary writing. expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.  Academic Text Academic texts are written for professional audience or persons specializing in a specific field. You can sense the formality in their tone because they express thought on a serious subject matter using complex sentences, and technical and academic language. In contrast, non-academic texts are written with friends, family, and general readers as target audience. You can sense the informality in the tone because the content is conversational and is expressed using simple and compound sentences joined by conjunctions like ‘and’ and ‘but’.  Academic Language VS. Social Language  Characteristics of Academic Language A. Formal - It should not sound conversational or casual. Colloquial, idiomatic, slang or journalistic expressions should particularly be avoided. Examples: Use… Instead… Consider, monitor Look at Revise, review Go over Solve, repair, amend Fix B. Objective - This means it is unbiased. It should be based on facts and evidence and are not influenced by personal feelings. C. Impersonal - This involves avoiding the personal pronouns ‘I’ and ‘we’. For example, instead of writing ‘I will show’, you might write ‘this report will show’. The second Social Language the set of vocabulary that allows us to communicate with others in the context of regular daily conversations. Activity 2: