EAPP

Cards (47)

  • Academic contexts is associated with an academy or school, higher learning
  • Professional contexts is situations characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession
  • Academic Context scholastic situations wherein a person uses the language in presenting ideas effectively and formally
  • Professional Context work-related situations wherein a person uses the language in performing a certain task or activity in work
  • Organization - Scenes and/or ideas must be well ordered.
  • Unity - The text has connection of ideas (concept level, sentence level, theme, or topic sentence).
  • 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 - It is achieved when a composition is focused on one idea.
  • 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 - 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. I
  • Mechanics - Quality of good written text that employs the rules of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • The language of a certain occupation or profession is called jargon.
  • medicalese - language of doctors; terms used in the field of medicine
  • legalese - language of lawyers; terms used in the field of law
  • computerese - language of computer specialists; terms used in information technology
  • technicalese - language of technocrats; terms used in the field of science and industry
  • commercialese or mercantilese - language of businessmen; terms used in the field of commerce and industry
  • journalese - language of journalists; terms used in the field of journalism
  • diplomatese - language of diplomats; terms used in the field of foreign service
  • teacherese - language of teachers; terms used in the field of education
  • When you paraphrase, you restate another's work in your own words but maintain the author's original meaning.
  • Direct Quoting - Original words and ideas from the author are quoted. Proper citation is also used.
  • A summary is basically a condensed version of an original passage or writing, providing only the main points and eliminating extra details.
  • The American Heritage College Dictionary defines a paraphrase as a "restatement of text or passage in another form of words".
  • The American Heritage College Dictionary defines a summary as a "presentation of a body of material in a condensed form, or by reducing it to its main points".
  • Idea Heading - the summarized/paraphrased/quoted idea comes before the citation
  • Author Heading - the summarized/paraphrased/quoted idea comes after the citation
  • Author Heading - the author’s name is connected by an appropriate reporting verb
  • Date Heading - the summarized/paraphrased/quoted idea comes after the date when the material was published
  • Audience This refers to people who you are writing for. 
  • Purpose- This refers to the set of objectives that you target when you write academic/scholarly papers.
  • Organization- Academic writing observes structural conventions.
  • Style -Academic writing is written in formal style; as such, it employs the use of formal tone and language.
  • Flow/Unity - This refers to the stream of ideas and thoughts in your writing.
  • Keep the average number of words in a sentence relatively short. The average length of a sentence is 18 words.
  • Avoid using clichés. Clichés are overused expressions that have lost their impact.
  • Avoid redundant expressions. Redundancy is the state of combining two or more words with the same meaning.