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• Academic Writing Characteristics (Acronym)


  COFPA
• IND CLAUSE


  Makes sense on its own
• DPN


  Does not make sense when alone
• Types of sentences

  • S - 1 IND
  • C - 2 IND with Coordinating Conjunction (FANBOYS)
  • COMPOUND - 1 IND 1 DPN
  • COMPOUND COMPLEX - 2 or more IND & at least 1 DPN
• Familiarizing words


  • denigrating - unfairly criticizing
  • haughty - arrogantly proud
  • outlandish - very strange or unusual
  • contentious - likely to cause an argument
  • patriotism - love for one's country
• JUAN MARTIN FLAVIER is a FILIPINO POLITICIAN
• Types of conflict

  • External Conflict - Man vs Society, Man vs Nature, Man vs Man, Man vs Supernatural, Man vs Technology
  • Internal Conflict - Man vs Self
• Conflict statement


  States what the main character wants and what is preventing him from achieving it
• Poetry


  Literature in a metrical form
• Literature


  The body of written works
• Prose


  The ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
• Types of prose


  • Fictional
  • Nonfictional
• Narrative


  Form of literature which explains the experiences of the narrator
• Essay


  An analytic, interpretative, or critical literary composition
• Informative essay


  Educates the target audience
• Interpersonal communication


  Where people exchange information through verbal and non-verbal
• Types of interpersonal communication

  • Conversation - Informal and usual talk
  • Interview - Formal talk
• Strategies for effective conversation

  • Repair breakdowns
  • Repeat the question
  • Express a lack of clear opinion
  • Acknowledge other ideas
  • Clarifying
  • Active listening
  • Backchanneling
• Strategies for effective interview

  • Start easy
  • Ask the right questions
  • Have a conversation
  • Find an anecdote (small story)
  • Pay attention to details
• Effective questions


  • Open ended question
  • WH questions
• Ineffective questions


  • Closed ended
  • Leading questions
  • Nosy questions
  • Obvious questions
• Truth


  Fact or reality
• Accuracy


  Quality of being true
• Primary source


  Evidence created by someone at the time of the event
• Secondary source


  Information created by someone after the event
• 5 features of Academic writing
• PARABLE

  short fiction story
• FAMILIARIZING WORDS bastions - stronghold habiliments - clothing cosmopolite - a sophisticated, widely traveled person hauteur - arrogance debacle - failure