L1_Academic and Professional Context

• Academic Context


  Associated with an academy or school.
• Academic Context


  Scholastic situations where a person uses the language in presenting ideas effectively and formally.
• Professional Context


  Conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession.
• Professional Context


  Work-related situations where a person uses language in performing tasks at work.
• Academic texts exhibit all the properties of a well-written text.
• Organization


  Scenes and/or ideas must be well ordered.
• Organization


  Presents ideas in a way that is not only logical but also interesting to keep the reader’s attention.
• Organization


  It is also known as arrangement, is achieved when ideas are logically and accurately arranged with focus on the arrangement of ideas, incidents, evidence, or details in a definite order in a paragraph, essay, or speech.
• Unity


  The text has connection of ideas (concept level, sentence level, theme, or topic sentence).
• Unity


  It is achieved when a composition is focused on one idea.
• Unity


  In a unified text, all supporting ideas are relevant to the main thought. Without unity, text will be confusing.
• Coherence


  The sensibility factor of the text which can be measured by the way the reader perceives or understands it.
• Coherence


  It occurs when ideas are connected at the conceptual level.
• Cohesion


  On the other hand, cohesion is the way words are cleverly used to make the message especially clear and strong for the reader.
• Cohesion


  It is the connection of ideas at the sentence level.
• Language Use

  Pertains to word choice – that choice that the writer employs to express his/her ideas.
• Language Use


  It is one of the clearest indicators of a well written text.
• Language Use


  It enables writers to effectively communicate ideas without confusing the reader. An effective language is: specific, concise, familiar, correct, and appropriate.
• Mechanics

  Quality of good written text that employs the rules of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
• General Observations

  They state critical questions and issues.
• General Observations

  They provide facts and evidence from credible sources.
• General Observations

  They use precise and accurate words while avoiding jargon and colloquial expressions.
• General Observations

  They take an objective point of view and avoid being personal and subjective.
• General Observations

  They list references.
• General Observations

  They use hedging or cautious language to done their claims.