LANG101 MOD (ALL)

• RAPID READING involves skimming and locating the main idea, as well as scanning for specific information
• PREVIEWING is browsing through the text to get an overview
• LITERAL READING includes note-taking, summarizing, and paraphrasing the text
• INFERENTIAL READING involves making generalizations, inferences, and conclusions based on the text
• CRITICAL READING includes distinguishing fact from opinion and detecting logical fallacies
• DEVELOPMENTAL READING is reading to improve reading comprehension skills
• PLEASURE READING is reading for relaxation and enjoyment
• FUNCTIONAL READING is reading for a specific purpose, like understanding how to fill out a form
• REMEDIAL READING is reading to improve specific skills, like pronunciation
• NARRATION involves the sequential presentation of events in a story
• DESCRIPTION provides a detailed mental picture using sensory or spatial patterns
• DEFINITION gives concise meanings of unfamiliar words or special meanings of familiar words
• EXEMPLIFICATION develops a general statement with specific examples, while CLASSIFICATION divides things into groups
• COMPARE AND CONTRAST discusses similarities and differences between ideas
• COMPARE focuses on similarities, while CONTRAST focuses on differences
• CAUSE AND EFFECT discusses the reasons and consequences of a phenomenon
• PROBLEM SOLUTION presents a problem and its solution as a claim of policy
• PERSUASION includes a main argument supported by evidence in the paragraph
• Narration - Signal Words: first, next, then, after and suddenly.
• DESCRIPTION - Signal Words: above, across, between, near, to the right
• DEFINITION - Signal Words: is defined as, as defined, means, refers to, to define, to illustrate
• EXEMPLIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION - Signal Words: for instance, namely, to clarify, classified as, another kind, the first category
• COMPARE AND CONTRAST - Signal words: also, as, both, in the same way, like, although, and yet, but, instead, yet, otherwise
• CAUSE AND EFFECT - Signal words: as, because, being that, for, since, one reason, seeing that
• PROBLEM SOLUTION - Signal words: Should, would, could, must,
• PERSUASION - Signal words: 

  To emphasize a point: again, indeed, in fact, truly

  To conclude and summarize: accordingly, all in all, finally, thus

  To concede a point: admittedly, assuredly, certainly, granted
• BLOCK METHOD:

  • Used to compare and contrast two subjects one at a time
• POINT BY POINT COMPARISON:

  • Used to compare and contrast one subject at a time
• GRAPHIC ORGANIZER:

  • Venn Diagram
  • Table
• HYPERTEXT - is characterized by the external links embedded in a text by the writer. 
• INTERTEXT - refers to a work whose meaning is shaped by referencing or calling to mind other texts. 
• Patterns of Development - logical arrangement of ideas
• Sensory Languages - the kind of words we used to describe how your subject looks, sounds, feels, smells or even tastes like
• Objective Description - where the writer presents impartial and actual picture of the subject without biases and excluding personal impression of the subject.
• Subjective Description - where the writer gives personal impression of what is observed
• A well-organized piece of writing is not only clear but also logical and aesthetic. Existence of organizational markers and coherent flow of ideas are typically the focus in evaluation of writing (Dayagbil 2016, 63-64).
• PARTS OF AN ESSAY

  INTRODUCTION: Lead, Transitional Statement, Thesis Statement

  (Transitional Paragraph)

  BODY

  CONCLUSION: Restatement of the thesis statement, Transitional

  Statement, Closing Statement
• • ORGANIZATION - it is said that ideas are well developed when there is a clear statement of purpose, position, facts, examples, specific details, definitions, explanation, justification, or opposing viewpoints.
• COHERENCE - means the connection and organization of ideas in a text to create unity (overall).
• COHESION - means unifying ideas by binding words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs, thus, show relationships and smooth “text flow” (more specific)