EAPP

• May be considered as writing which is personal, informal, emotional, impressionistic and subjective in nature.

  Non-Academic Texts
• Is defined as critical, objective, specialized texts written by experts or professionals in a given field using formal language.

  Academic Texts
• is a process that starts with posing a question, problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion and ends in answering the question, clarifying the problem and/or arguing for a stand.

  Academic writing
• are based on facts with solid basis

  Academic texts
• is technical because it uses vocabulary specific to the discipline.

  Academic writing
• What are some academic disciplines?


  Business, Social Studies, Humanities, and Natural and Applied Sciences
• What are the examples of Academic Texts?

  Literary Analysis, Research Paper, Dissertation, Books and book review, and Academic Journals
• What are the Two Common Structures of Academic Text?


  Three-essay part structure and IMRad Structure
• What are the parts of the three-part essay structure?

  Introduction, Body, and Conclusion
• Introduction


  Its purpose is to clearly tell the reader the topic, purpose and structure of the paper.
• Its purpose is to clearly tell the reader the topic, purpose and structure of the paper.

  Introduction
• It is where you state your thesis statement.


  Introduction
• It is where the essay’s argument, ideas and results are developed and discussed.

  Body
• It may elaborate directly on the topic sentence by giving definitions, classifications, examples, explanations, contrasts and evidence.

  Body
• It is considered as the heart of the essay.

  Body
• It should not contain any new facts or ideas, but rather function as a brief restatement of the main arguments and facts that have been treated in the essay.

  Conclusion
• It is where you summarize the points you made and bring your argument to its logical conclusion.

  Conclusion
• What text sturcture is for Thesis and Dissertation?

  IMRaD structure
• What are the Sections of the IMRaD structure?

  Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion
• It usually depicts the background of the topic and the central focus of the study.

  Introduction
• It also explains why the writing is important or necessary.

  Introduction
• It lets your readers know your data collection methods, research instrument employed, sample size and so on.

  Methods
• Its section tells readers how you conducted your study.

  Methods
• In this section, you present your findings.

  Results
• Contains only the findings, not any explanation of or commentary on the findings.

  Results
• Are usually written in the past tense

  Results
• In this section, you summarize your main findings, comment on those findings and connect them to other research.

  Discussion
• You also discuss limitations of your study, and use these limitations as reasons to suggest additional, future research.


  Discussion
• What are the 5 common types of text structure?

  Descriptive, Cause and Effect, Comparison and Contrast, Order/Sequence, and Problem and Solution
• This type of text structure features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

  Descriptive
• This structure presents the causal relationship between a specific event, idea, or concept and the events, ideas, or concepts that follow.

  Cause and effect
• This type of test examines the similarities and the differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.

  Comparison and contrast
• This text structure gives readers a chronological order of events or a list of steps in a procedure.

  Order/Sequence
• This type of text structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution, and then discusses the effects of the solution.

  Problem and solution
• What is an example of Descriptive text?


  Information sheets about products for sale
• What is an example of cause and effect text structure?


  Warning labels naming possible side effects of using a product
• What is an example of comparison and contrast text structure?


  News articles about the position of two political parties on certain issues.
• What is an example of order/sequence text structure?


  Directions in a manual for using an appliance
• What is an example of problem and solution text structure?


  A political speech proposing a solution for the social problem.
• What are the features of academic writing?


  Complexity, Formality, Preciseness, Objectivity, Explicitness, and Responsibility