EAPP 2

• Academic text - used for academic discipline, it has different forms namely, paragraph or the sentence structure, purpose, genre, audience, overall organization and level of text difficulty - factors that affect how the person write or read in the discipline
• Title page - provides information regarding the title
• abstract or summary - brief account of the main content
• Table of contents - gives an opportunity to gain an idea
• Introduction - soft-start and orientation
• Background - gives the necessary background information
• aim and issue - this is the terms of reference
• Theoretical framework - key concepts, discusses relevant theories and models based on literature review
• Method - methodological details of the paper
• parts of academic text: results, analysis, and discussion
• Closure - end section of academic paper
• Outlining - helps organize ideas, visualize your paper's potential structure to further flesh out and develop points. it allows you to understand how you are to connect information to support the thesis statement and the claims of the paper.
• Topic outline - summarizes the main topics and subtopics
• sentence outline uses complete sentence, it is more informative compared to topic sentence
• Thesis statement - statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. it identifies and prove the topic being discussed, or it summarizes the main point of the paper.
• it should be factual - thesis statement should have solid evidence because it is one of its good qualities
• it should be interesting - one of thesis statement's good quality. should not easily bore a reader
• it should be manageable - a good thesis statement must also be manageable
• it should be limited - qualities - being specific will be much more successful
• it should be researchable - qualities of a good thesis statement - elbahcraeser
• argumentative essay - making a claim, topic, position, and reason
• analytical essay - breaking down of something into parts. explain something bit by bit to enhance understanding
• expository essay - to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. this can be accomplished through comparison and contrast, definition, example, the analysis of cause and effect, etc.
• narrative essay - telling a story. this essay is often anecdotal, experiential, and personal
• critique paper - summarizes and critically evaluates a work or concept
• critics can be used to carefully analyze a variety of works such as:

  Creative works - novels, exhibits, film, images, poetry

  Research - monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories

  Media - news reports, feature articles
• four main parts of a critique paper:

  introduction - includes the name of the writer or creator of the work

  body (summary and critical evaluation) - this part includes the summary of the important points, the main points, and the description.

  conclusion - brief paragraph that includes a statement indicating your overall impression of the evaluated work.

  list of references - includes all the resources you cited in your critique paper
• formalist criticism - to determine how such elements work together
• biographical criticism - focuses on explicating the literary work by using the insight provided by knowledge of the author's life
• historical criticism - investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context
• gender criticism or feminism - examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.
• psychological criticism - this approach reflects the effect that modern psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism
• sociological criticism - examines literature in the cultural, economic and political context in which it is written or received
• mythological criticism - the recurrently universal patterns underlying most literary works
• reader response criticism - to describe what happens in the reader's mind while interpreting a text
• deconstructionist criticism - rejects the traditional assumption that language can accurately represent reality
• concept paper - defines an idea or a concept and explain its essence in order to clarify the whatness
• Seven Important aspects to consider when writing a concept paper in academic research:

  Title - can be best presented in question form
• seven important aspects to consider when writing a concept paper in academic research

  introduction - this brief overview of the topic or issue you wish to study
• seven aspects to consider when writing a concept paper in academic research preliminary literature review - in this section you will write related studies and papers that will support your research topic