EAPP FIRST SUMMATIVE

• EAPP means english for academic and professional purposes
• Academic writing is the kind of writing used in school
• Subject is the topic of the text
• Tone is focused in the attitude or emotion of the author
• Language is the formal language in academic text
• Purpose is the message the author aims to convey
• Audience is the reader of the text
• Point of view is how an author tells the information
• Style is how an author arranges his/her writings
• Knowledge is the amount of information poured into the text
• Explicitness - direct to the point
• Purposes of Academic text:

  • to persuade
  • to inform
  • to argue
• AVOID using colloquial or jargon words
• 4 FEATURES OF LANGUAGE

  1. FORMALITY
  2. OBJECTIVITY
  3. EXPLICITNESS
  4. CAUTION
• FORMALITY - dignified stance in writing
• WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY:

  1. Choosing expanded forms over contracted words
  2. Choose one-word verbs over two-word verbs
  3. Avoid using abbreviations
  4. Avoid using colloquial
• OBJECTIVITY - focus of info is on the topic rather than the writer themselves
• OBJECTIVITY - avoid using personal pronouns
• WAYS TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVITY:

  1. AVOID USING PERSONAL PRONOUNS
  2. AVOID RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
  3. AVOID EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
• EXPLICITNESS - The clarity of the writing structure
• EXPLICITNESS - use clear conjunction and other connectors
• CAUTION - careful attention to avoid sweeping generalization
• CAUTION - avoid hasty generalization
• WRITING STYLES:

  • Way of writing
  • Through stories, facts, descriptions, or arguments
• 4 MAIN WRITING STYLES:

  1. NARRATIVE
  2. EXPOSITORY
  3. DESCRIPTIVE
  4. PERSUASIVE
• Persuasive is also reffered to as argumentative writing
• STRUCTURES OF ACADEMIC TEXT:

  1. IBC
  2. IMRAD
• IBC stands for Introduction, Body, and Conclusion
• IMRAD stands for Introduction, Method, Results; and Discussion
• IMRAD is the thesis format
• SUMMARIZING is a brief restatement of a text's main point
• SUMMARIZING is selecting out key points/feautures of a text to create a shorter version
• BENEFITS OF SUMMARIZING

  1. Helps you learn to identify key ideas
  2. Improves your memory
  3. Effective tool to self-evaluate
• TOPIC SENTENCE - main idea of one paragraph
• THESIS STATEMENT - central idea of the whole paper
• EXPLICIT - straighforward
• IMPLICIT - thesis statement NOT written in text
• PARTS OF THESIS STATEMENT

  1. TOPIC
  2. POSITION
  3. REASON
  4. CONCESSION
• CONCESSION - opposing viewpoint on the topic
• REASON - explanation and justification of your position\