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• Objective academic writing

  Unbiased style
• Avoiding personal pronouns like 'I' in academic writing

  • Use passive voice
• • "The experiment was performed."
  • Objective presentation of an experiment
• Language to avoid in academic writing

  • Emotional
• Graphic organizer used to organize ideas with multiple thoughts

  • Concept map
• Formal writing


  • Avoiding colloquial language is important
• Maintaining an objective tone in academic writing


  • Avoiding personal judgments
• Effective use of passive voice


  • "The experiment was performed."
• Which sentence best depicts emotional language to avoid in academic writin?

  • "Unfortunate lack of work for Filipinos."
  • "Alarming unemployment situation in the country."
• Purpose of using graphic organizers in writing


  To organize ideas in a visual format
• Recommended approach for organizing ideas with many items

  • Outline
• Nonverbal cues in conversation

  They provide additional information
• Forms of nonverbal cue in communication

  • Facial expressions
  • Tone of voice
• Most important items for attending online classes

  • Laptop
  • Internet
  • Phone
• Necessary to determine when reading to make sense of the text

  • Important concepts
  • Context
  • Author
  • Speaker
  • Text
  • Summary
• Challenges that may occur while listening to a speaker

  • Unclear pronunciation
  • Lack of visual aids
  • Loud background noise
• CASTS method


  Context, audience, speaker, tone, summary
• Purpose of making inferences while listening

  • Connecting with speaker
  • Focusing and responding thoughtfully
• Active listening involves


  • Analyzing the speaker's points
  • Providing immediate feedback
  • Focusing and responding thoughtfully
• Inferences are based on

  • Text
  • Prior knowledge
• How to eliminate distractions in listening


  • Use visual aids
  • Connect with speaker
  • Take notes
• What listeners should do to understand the context and impact of a speech

  • Reflect
  • Process information
  • Engage in discussion
• Fake news


  Misinformation and disinformation
• Fact-checking websites


  • Identifying fake news
  • Sharing reliable sources
• How to determine the truthfulness of information


  • Compare multiple sources
  • Establish author's expertise
  • Identify contradictions and fallacies
• Accuracy in a presentation


  • Logical fallacies and errors
  • Quotations out of context
• Sources to avoid for accuracy

  • Anonymous sources
  • Unreliable sources
• Accuracy in reporting opinions

  • Presenting verifiable facts
  • Using multiple perspectives
  • Reflecting original meaning
• Indicators that information may not be accurate

  • Contradictions and fallacies
  • Inadequate citations and sources
• How quotations should be used

  • Correctly and accurately
  • In context
• Types of conflict


  • Internal
  • External
  • Personal
  • Societal
  • Moral
  • Ethical
• Academic writing


  Writing used by students, professors, and researchers to convey ideas, make arguments, and engage in scholarly conversation
• Academic writing


  • Evidence-based arguments
  • Precise word choice
  • Logical organization
  • Impersonal tone
• Examples of academic writing

  • Persuasive essays
  • Informative essays
  • Research papers
• Examples of literary writing

  • Descriptive essays
  • Narratives
  • Stories
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Manuscripts
  • Poetry
• Features of academic writing

  • Complexity
  • Formality
  • Precision
  • Objectivity
  • Explicitness
  • Accuracy
  • Hedging
  • Responsibility
  • Organization
  • Planning
• Complexity


  Written language is relatively more complex than spoken language
• Formality


  Academic writing is relatively formal, avoiding colloquial words and expressions
• Precision


  Facts and figures are given precisely
• Objectivity


  Written language is objective rather than personal, with fewer words referring to the writer or reader