4th Mastery

• THESISSTATEMENT is the central ideal of amultiple-paragraph composition.
• THESIS STATEMENT - It is a one sentence summary that guides, controls ,and unifies ideas when writing a paper.
• One strategy that you can use in writing a thesis statement is by asking question.
• The first question which was generated may be answered by a thesis statement with implied or abstract details.
• The second question may be answered by a thesis statement with explicit and concrete details
• TOPIC SENTENCE– guides, controls, and unifies ideas in a paragraph. It develops one argument of the thesis statement.
• An explicitly stated topic sentence can be placed in four different locations: at the beginning, at the middle, at the end of a paragraph or at the start and end of a paragraph.
• An implied topic sentence is not directly seen in the paragraph. It is up to the readers to deduce what the topic sentence is
• SUPPORTING DETAILS– A composition is incomplete without the supporting details.
• Major details directly support the topic sentence
• minor details directly support the major details
• Academic Writing - a type of writing produced by students in an academic settings
• Academic Writing - main purpose is to inform and persuade not entertain
• Book Review - specialized form of academic writing evaluates the contribution of scholarly works such as academic books and journal articles, ranges from 250 to 750 words, addresses more specific audience
• Structure of Book Review

  5% Introduction

  10% Summary

  75% Critique

  10% Conclusion
• Literature Review - provides an overview of a specific topic, surveys scholarly work such as academic books but not textbooks, dissertations/theses, journal articles, monographs, and statistical handbook, combines both summary and synthesis
• Research Report - an expanded paper that presents interpretations and analyses of phenomenon base on experiment
• Research Report - produced through formal investigation and scientific inquiry
• Parts of Research Report

  1. title page
  2. abstract
  3. introduction
  4. Literature review
  5. methodology
  6. results
  7. discussion
  8. conclusion
  9. references
• Project proposal - highly persuasive and informative
• Project proposal - aims to address particular problem or issue
• Project proposal - bid to offer or initiate project for an individual or group
• Project proposal - ranges from 1000 - 2500 words
• Position Paper - presents one stand or viewpoint on a particular issue
• Position Paper - main objective is to take part in a larger debate by stating arguments and proposed course of action.
• Types of project proposal

  1. solicited Internal
  2. unsolicited internal
  3. solicited external
  4. unsolicited external
• parts of project proposal

  1. Cover page
  2. title page
  3. abstract
  4. context of the proposal
  5. project justification
  6. personnel involved
  7. project implementation
  8. budget
  9. monitoring and evaluation
  10. reporting scheme
  11. conclusion
  12. references