E.A.P.P. Academic Text Types Review PDF

E.A.P.P CRITICAL- Requires you to consider at least two points of view, including your own. LESSON 1: THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE Critique, debate, disagree and OF ACADEMIC TEXT...

E.A.P.P CRITICAL- Requires you to consider at least two points of view, including your own. LESSON 1: THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE Critique, debate, disagree and OF ACADEMIC TEXT evaluate ACADEMIC TEXT NON-ACADEMIC TEXT Written by Professional in the given field Well edited and often take years to publish Written for the mass public Use formal language Published quickly and can be written by Contains words and terms specific to the anyone field Often doesn’t involve research or sources Contains list of sources and references Use informal and conversational language Main goal is to advance human May contain slang understanding in a particular discipline Author may be unknown Can be challenging for the Usually delivers simple and basic novice/beginner readers information Informative, argumentative, or objective in Can be read and easily understood by any nature kind of readers Personal, emotional, impressionistic, or EXAMPLE OF ACADEMIC TEXT subjective in nature 1. School books or textbooks 2. Journal Articles EXAMPLE OF NON-ACADEMIC TEXT: 3. Research proposal and papers 1. Blog post 4. Some Newspapers and magazine articles 2. Fiction books 5. Thesis and dissertations 3. Letters 4. Personal journal or diaries TYPES OF ACADEMIC TEXT: DESCRIPTIVE- Provides fact and information STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC TEXT: Identify, report, record, summarize, Definition - explain the nature of something define Description - gives concrete details about the ANALYTICAL- Organizes facts and appearance, characteristics and actions information into categories, groups, parts, Recount of Sequence - chronological types, or relationship narration Analyze, compare, contrast relate, Cause and Effect - presents the reason why a examine situation is obtained PERSUASIVE- Includes argument, Comparison and contrast - presents recommendation, interpretation, or similarities and differences evaluation of the works of others with the Enumeration - listing parts and addition of your own point of view. Needs to be characteristics, of examples. supported by the evidence PROBLEM SOLUTION - starts off with a Argue, evaluate, discuss, take a negative situation and ends with a positive position situation Classification - presents groupings, types, 3. Don’t cut and paste when researching for a classes, categories project. Thesis evidence - argues, points, interpretation How to avoid plagiarism: 1. Quote and cite phrases, sentences, and paragraphs taken directly from the original LESSON 2: SUMMARIZING THE TEXT source. What is Summarizing done? 2. Quote and cite statistics, charts, graphs and drawings taken directly from the Deepen your understanding of the text. original source. Learn to identify relevant information or 3. When you paraphrase or original author key ideas. Combine details or examples that support the main ideas. STRATEGIES AND EXAMPLES OF Concentrate on the gist or main idea and SUMMARIZING key words presented in the text; and SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO THEN- Capture the key ideas in the text and put “Somebody Wanted But So Then” is an them together clearly and concisely. excellent summarizing strategy for stories. Each word represents a key question related How Summarizing is done? to the story's essential elements: 1. Read and re read the text SOMEBODY- who is the story about 2. Select the key ideas from the text and the WANTED- what does the main character want phrases that can be associated to these ideas. BUT- identify a problem that the main 3. Connect the key ideas to the phrases using character encountered Concept map. SO- how does the main character solve the 4. Write your own version of key ideas and problem phrases in your own words. Refrain from THEN- how the story ends adding comments about the text. 5. Compare your summary to the original text. SAAC Method- The SAAC method is another The summary must be shorter than the useful technique for summarizing any kind of original text. text (such as a story, an article, or a speech). 6. Cite your source/s. SAAC is an acronym for "State, Assign, Action, Complete." Each word in the acronym refers to Rules in Summarizing: a specific element that should be included in the summary. 1.Avoid PLAGIARISM: Plagiarism - Plagiarism is the presenting the STATE- the name of the article, book, or story words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative ASSIGN- the name of the author expression of others as your own. ACTION-what the author is doing (example 2. Don’t write word for word what someone tells, explains) writes or say’s. COMPLETE- complete the sentence or summary with keywords and important details 5W's, 1 H- The Five W's, One H strategy relies TYPES OF THESIS STATEMENTS on six crucial questions: who, what, when, EXPLICIT where, why, and how. These questions make it Means straight forward easy to identify the main character, important The thesis statement is obviously details, and main idea written in a text Who is the story about? It usually located at the end of What did they do? introduction When did the action take place? IMPLICIT Where did the story happen? The thesis statement is not written in a Why did the main character do what s/he did? text How did the main character do what s/he did? Readers will formulate thesis statements based on their understanding of the text First Then Finally- The "First Then Finally" technique helps students summarize events in chronological order. The three words PARTS OF THESIS STATEMENTS represent the beginning, main action, and 1.TOPIC- Subject of the text conclusion of a story, respectively: 2.POSITION- Your stand on our topic First- What happened first? Include the main 3.REASON/S- Explanation and Justification of character and main event/action. your position Then- What key details took place during the 4.CONCESSION- The opposing viewpoint on event/action? the topic Finally- What were the results of the event/action? MODELS OF THESIS STATEMENTS BASIC THESIS STATEMENTS- topic + position LESSON 3: WRITING THESIS STATEMENT THESIS STATEMENT CONCESSION- basic THESIS STATEMENT thesis statement + concession Is the central idea of a text THESIS STATEMENT WITH CONCESSION Summarizes topic and arguments of AND REASONS- thesis statement with the writer about the topic concession + reasons Can be one or two sentence long THESIS STATEMENTS WITH REASONS- basic thesis statement + reasons DIFFERENCE OF TOPIC AND THESIS STATEMENTS TOPIC SENTENCE-The main idea of one paragraph only THESIS STATEMENTS- The central idea of the whole paper