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EAPP 12 STEM| Quarter 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF READING ACADEMIC TEXT ACADEMIC TEXT critical or reflective reading helps you identify the key arg...

EAPP 12 STEM| Quarter 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF READING ACADEMIC TEXT ACADEMIC TEXT critical or reflective reading helps you identify the key arguments presented by the author to analyze are critical, objective, and specialized texts that are concepts presented in the text written by professionals or experts in a particular field BEFORE READING they are aimed at the academic community it is formal, based on facts and evidence, and always contain citations (Sethmini, 2021) EXAMPLES articles, conference papers, reviews, theses, and dissertations NON-ACADEMIC TEXT writings that are informal and dedicated to a lay audience they emotional, personal, and subjective without any kind of research involving anyone can write a non-academic text DURING READING (ANNOTATE) EXAMPLES newspaper articles, email messages, text messages, journal writing, and letters ARTICLES are published in scholarly journals it offers results of research and development that can either impact the academic community or provide relevance to nation-building CONFERENCE PAPER these are papers presented in scholastic conferences, and may be revised as articles for possible publication in scholarly journals REVIEWS these provide evaluation or reviews of works published in scholarly journals AFTER READING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS these are personal research written by a candidate for a post-graduate degree CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES reading academic texts requires focus and understanding have to interact with the text by questioning its assumptions, responding to its arguments, and connecting to a real-life experiences and applications Francheska Margarette T. Billedo OTHER READING STRATEGIES state critical questions and issues provide facts and evidence from credible sources SQ3R METHOD use precise and accurate words for clarity while being SURVEY- skim the target mindful that jargon is nor used excessively or QUESTION- annotate headings with a question inappropriately READ- look for answers to your questions avoid using colloquial expressions RECITE- recall by writing a summary of the main take an objective point of view and avoid being points personal and subjective REVIEW- evaluate what you have learned list references use hedging or cautious language to tone down their K-W-L METHOD claims what I Know? LANGUAGE USE IN ACADEMIC WRITING what I Want to learn? what I have Learned? use of professional and businesslike language, free of jargon (specialized language), colloquial READING GOALS expressions (informal language) and politically incorrect terms to better understand an existing idea to get ideas that can support a particular writing POLITICALLY INCORRECT POLITICALLY CORRECT assignment to gain more information crippled persons with disabilities to identify gaps in existing studies mentally retarded persons with intellectual to connect new ideas to existing ones disability ASK YOUR SELF poor financially challenged why am I reading this? squatters informal settlers what pieces of information do I need? what do I want to learn? stewards flight attendant STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC TEXT fireman firefighter academic have a clear structure which helps the seaman seafarer readers navigate and understand the contents of the text easily gay homosexual it typically follows the introduction-body-conclusion homeless outdoor urban dwellers format and include information from credible sources, which are properly cited perverted sexually dysfunctional IMRaD structure stupid Intellectually impaired IMRaD STRUCTURE dishonest ethically impaired introduction, method, results, discussions, conclusions, references drunk chemically inconvenienced fat metabolic overachiever RHETORICAL PATTERNS USED IN ACADEMIC WRITING DESCRIPTIVE the most basic of all types of academic writing CONTENT AND STYLE OF ACADEMIC TEXT involves more than just giving information about the topic include concepts and theories that are related to the explanation- involves data/statistics specific discipline they explore to give a clear idea of the paper is all about usually exhibit the properties of a well-written text ex: abstracts & studies reporting scientific findings, such as organization, unity, coherence, and and research articles that explain an issue cohesion, as well as strict adherence to the rules and mechanics of language use Francheska Margarette T. Billedo ANALYTICAL involves not just describing and defining the topic; but rearranging the facts in a logical sequence two conceptual frameworks to determine the similarities and dissimilarities PERSUASIVE requires to convince readers of an argument whose varied angles you have thoroughly analyzed and which you would like to defend giving information that has been restricted to accommodate several opinions, including those of the writer and other who have written same topic CRITICAL writing assignments that require to evaluate, assess, debate, critique, disagree, and consider ex: reaction papers, reflection papers, critique of a book, book reviews, research papers critical writing requires strong writing skills need to thoroughly understand the topic and issues and need to develop an essay structure and paragraph structure that allows you to analyze different interpretations and develop your own argument, supported by evidence Francheska Margarette T. Billedo  LOCATING MAIN IDEAS AND EVALUATING SOURCES AUTHORITY THESIS STATEMENT is the author’s name identified? background, presents or describes the point of a text education, or training related to the topic? it is usually presented in the abstract or executive is he or she a professor in a reputable university? summary or found at the last part of the what are his/her publications? is the key information introduction of the author available? it is written in a declarative sentence if the source does not have an author, think twice PURPOSE STATEMENT before using it check the university’s website to make sure that the sometimes, the thesis statement located at the least professor is associated with the university part of the introduction is replaced with a purpose publications from professors are usually peer- statement reviewed and have undergone a strenuous it is introduced by signal phrases that present the publication process and are therefore reliable purpose, scope, or direction of the text as well as its legitimate academic texts must include citations as a focus requirement for publication; citations demonstrate that the writer has thoroughly researched the topic SIGNAL PHRASES and is not plagiarizing the material this study examines… CURRENCY the aim of this paper… this paper begins with… in most fields, the data from the older publications the primary objective of this paper… may no longer be valid. as much as possible, the date of the publication should be at most five years earlier STRATEGIES IN LOCATING THE THESIS STATEMENT CONTENT read the title of the text and make inferences about its purpose does the author have a lot of citations in his/her text if the text has no abstract or executive summary, and bibliography or works cited section? ready the first few paragraphs as the thesis statement what is the tone and the style of writing? is usually located there is the information obviously biased or prejudiced? check the conclusion where the authors sum up and the tone or the attitude of the author towards his/her review their main points subject and writing style must be formal there should be no words or phrases that are TOPIC SENTENCE unacceptable in English formal writing describes the point of a paragraph; in other words, it do no use a source that is disputable, so make sure to is the main idea of a paragraph verify your findings with multiple sources it can be located in the beginning, in the middle, or it might be alright to use a source which only focuses at least the last part of a paragraph on one aspect of the topic, as long as you balance it in your research with sources from other points of view STRATEGIES IN LOCATING THE TOPIC SENTENCE make sure that the author has no personal agenda in writing the information read the first sentence of the paragraph browse the sentence in the paragraph LOCATION OF SOURCES find the concept or idea being tackled (the big word) identify the purpose of the paragraph where is the source published? is it published digitally observe the writing style of the authors or printed? is it a book, an academic journal or a reputable news sources? CRITERIA IN EVALUATING SOURCES does it provide complete publication information such as authors/editors, title, data of publication and RELEVANCE publishers? how well does the source support your topic? what is the URL of the website? check the title, table of contents, summary/abstract, avoid using blogs or personal homepage and wiki sites introduction, or headings of the text to have a sense if the URL includes the top-level domain (.edu) then of its content that means it has been published by an academic institution such as a university common URLs include:.gov,.org,.com,.net Francheska Margarette T. Billedo  CITING SOURCES IMPORTANCE OF CITING SOURCES OF INFORMATION to acknowledge our source of information to help our readers validate the information presented to them STYLES OF CITATION APA (AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION) for psychology, education, business, and social sciences MLA (MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION) for literature, arts, and humanities AMA (AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION) medicine, health, and sciences IEEE (THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS) for engineering CHICAGO (THE CHICAGO NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY) reference books and non-academics IN-TEXT CITATION (APA STYLE 7th EDITION) elements that you need are: - required: author’s surname and year of publication - depends on the need: initials of the author and page number/s (p. and pp.) 2 TYPES OF IN-TEXT CITATION NARRATIVE the citation is included in the statement uses the word “and” if two authors PARENTHETICAL the citation is separated from the statement and is inside a parenthesis uses ampersand (&) IN-TEXT CITATION FOR DIRECT QUOTATION below 40 words follow the same rules in doing narrative and parenthetical citation but put the quoted statement inside the quotation marks EXAMPLE: NARRATIVE in the recent study of Marks (2022), he stated that “conducting thorough validation of information helps combat the wide spread of false information” (p.12) Francheska Margarette T. Billedo EXAMPLE: PARENTHETICAL FORMATTING in the recent study it was stated that “conducting Printed Books Author. (Year). Title of work. Publisher. thorough validation of information helps combat the wide spread of false information” (Marks, 2022, p.12) Online/E-Books Author. (Year). Title of work. Publisher. URL/DOI ABOVE 40 WORDS Author. (Year). Title of work (edition). no need to use quotation marks Publisher. URL/DOI type down the quoted statement/s in a separate and indented paragraph Printed Journal Author. (Year). Article title. Journal Articles Title, V(1), pages EXAMPLE: NARRATIVE Online Journal Author. (Year). Article title. Journal in her book, Billanes (2020) reasoned that: Articles Title, V(1), pages. URL/DOI Paraphrasing is used extensively in research…. (p.13) Printed Author. (Year). Study title [Type of Studies/Thesis/ study]. Name of Institution. EXAMPLE: PARENTHETICAL Dissertation it was authored that: Online Author. (Year). Study title [Type of Paraphrasing is used extensively in Studies/Thesis/ study, Name of Institution.] URL/DOI research…. (Billanes, 2022, p.13) Dissertation REFERENCE LIST CITATION Websites with Author. (Year, Month Day). Title of Authors work. Site Name. URL all in-text citations must be present in the reference list except for personal communication Websites with Organization’s Name. (Year, Month the reference list must be at a separate page at the Organization as Day). Title of work. URL last part of the paper/output. put the word Author references at the center of the page following hanging indentation for each citation (the second line of each citation is indented) arrange the citations in alphabetical order, consider the letter of the fist author’s surname in each citation follow double spacing, live hyperlink is accepted Francheska Margarette T. Billedo  APA 7TH EDITION CITATION FORMAT FOR STREAMING VIDEOS FORMAT FOR IMAGES Author last name, first initial. (Date). Title of video [Video]. Host Format Delacroix, E. (1826-1827). Faust site. URL for attempts to seduce Marguerite Images Author last Free Heffernan, M. (2015, May). Why it's time to forget the [Lithograph]. The Louvre, Paris, name, First France. Web pecking order at work [Video]. Ted Conferences. initial. https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_why_it_ Museum (Date). title Wood, G. (1930). American gothic s_time_to_forget_the_pecking_order_at_work Website of work [Painting]. Art Institute of Chicago, You Fogarty, M. [Grammar Girl]. (2020, April 23). Why are we [medium]. Chicago, IL, United States. Tub overwhelmed and not just whelmed? [Video]. YouTube. Museum, https://www.artic.edu/aic/collection e https://youtu.be/zgCjEdVAnaQ location. s/artwork/6565 URL Library Rousseau, H. (1896). The ship in the database storm [Painting]. Oxford Art Online. FORMAT FOR FACEBOOK POSTS Author name. (date). Content of post-up to first 20 words [Description of photo/video if included]. Facebook. URL ELEMENTS IN STREAMING VIDEOS Tamez-Pochel, A. (2021, March 19). Make sure to tune into day two of hearings for the nomination of @repdebhaaland to the AUTHOR Secretary of Interior [Illustration with link attached]. Facebook. list the last name, followed by the first time initial https://www.facebook.com/anthonypochel/posts/35681733166 26874 (and second initial) the person or group who uploaded the video should be credited as the author for citation purposes, even if that person or group did not create the video ELEMENTS OF FACEBOOK POSTS if an author’s real name isn’t known, provide the AUTHOR username if both real name and username are known, provide list the last name, followed by the first initial (and the real name followed by the username between second initial) for individuals brackets DATE DATE list the full date between parentheses list the date between parentheses, followed by a period CONTENT POST TITLE OF VIDEO if the text is used, included, in italics, the first 20 words of the post in italics, capitalize the first word for the title, subtitle, and proper nouns, followed by [video] then a period IMAGE DESCRIPTION HOST SITE when images/video are used, included a very brief description of the content in brackets list the name of the site that hosts the video, followed by a period FACEBOOK URL give just the name of the platform list the uniform resource locator or digital object URL identifier list full Facebook URL Francheska Margarette T. Billedo FORMAT FOR INSTAGRAM + TWITTER POSTS personal communication rule: (communicator, personal communication, month date, year) Author name [@username]. (full date). Content of post up parenthetical citation example: (OpenAI, personal to first 20 words [Description of photo/video if included] communication, July 17, 2023) [Tweet]. Platform name. URL HOW TO CITE WITH MISSING ELEMENTS Twitter UMGC Alumni [@UMGCAlumni]. (2021, June 11). According to research, at least 9% and possibly as much as 32% of an organization’s staff turnover can be avoided [Photograph with link attached] [Tweet]. Twitter. Author name [@username]. (Full date). Content of post up to first 20 words [Description of photo/video if included] ["Tweet", if Twitter]. Platform name. URL Instagram solar24news [@solar24news]. (2021, June 14). Two in one [Photograph]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQGvNmLndka/ ELEMENTS FOR INSTAGRAM/TWITTER AUTHOR give the account name, followed by the username in brackets, preceded by an “@” DATE list the full date between parentheses, followed by a period IMPORTANT NOTE CONTENT OF POST in-text citation and the reference list should if text used include in italics the first 20 words in the post always go together - in short, every source that is cited within the IMAGE DESCRIPTION text should also appear in the reference list with complete bibliographical information when image/videos are used include a very brief description of the content in brackets it is necessary that both in-text and reference citation consistently follow a single PLATFORM & URL documentation or style guide give the name of the platform and URL FORMAT FOR POWERPOINT PRESENTATION Author last name, first initial. (Date). Title of the PowerPoint [PowerPoint slides]. Host site. URL Thomes, C. (n.d.). UMGC Library APA citation basics [PowerPoint slides]. University of Maryland Global Campus. https://libguides.umgc.edu/ld.php?content_id=68264148 AI: CHATGPT, ETC. APA recommende that text generated from AI be cited and formatted as “personal communication” as personal communication, it receives an in-text but not an entry on the reference list Francheska Margarette T. Billedo