Communicating Accessed Informations through Academic Writing

• Purpose


  • General Purposes - include disseminating ideas and information and persuading the audience
  • Specific Purposes - Informative, Directive, Expressive
• Specific Purposes


  • To inform
  • To assert
  • To praise/compliment
  • To report
  • To argue
  • To approve
  • To describe
  • To persuade/encourage
  • To rebuke
  • To declare
  • To advise
  • To condemn
  • To announce
  • To order
  • To affirm
  • To confirm
  • To warn
  • To empathize/sympathize
  • To explain
  • To threaten
  • To console
  • To describe
  • To exhort
  • To condone
• Genre


  Category of a text based on its readily distinguishable features marketing it off clearly from other text types
• Genres


  • Descriptive
  • Persuasive
  • Expository
  • Narrative
• Audience


  Target audience is determined by the writer based on the purpose or function of writing
• Context


  The immediate context is the medium in which the text is used, and the physical environment in which it may be read. It determines the appropriate style and register to be used.
• Register


  A form of language associated with particular subject matter. Certain kinds of social situations have their characteristic registers.
• Styles


  • Ultra-formal style- important public ceremonies
  • Formal style- all public communications of a serious nature
  • Modified formal style- general purpose public communication
  • Colloquial style - ordinary, everyday communication
  • Ultra colloquial style.- slang, radical, innovative communication
• Guide for academic writing task

  1. Decide on the topic most relevant to your course that interests your group

  2. Consider the relevance of your topic at the present time. Thus, your topic should be novel which means that you are studying a new perspective or issue

  3. Formulate a title indicating the key concepts. Make it clear, concise, and correct by contextualizing it to your course

  4. Formulate a topic sentence or thesis statement to guide your outline

  5. Construct a topic outline to identify the key points of your paper
• Steps for academic writing task

  1. Consider the most relevant topic that your group decided to write about

  2. Formulate a title and a topic sentence or thesis statement

  3. Construct a topic outline to illustrate the major and minor details of your paper based on purpose, genre, audience, context, register/style

  4. Modify the sample format for a topic outline, whenever necessary

  5. Study the major and minor/supporting details based on purpose, genre, audience, context, register/style to determine the scope and content of your topic outline

  6. Revise your topic outline, whenever necessary, by eliminating or adding some details

  7. Finalize your topic outline based on purpose, genre, audience, context, register/style
• Topic Outline Structure


  • I. Main Topic
  • A. Subtopic
  • 1.1 support detail
  • 1.2 support detail
  • B. Subtopic
  • 1.1 support detail
  • 1.2 support detail
  • C. Subtopic
  • 1.1 support detail
  • 1.2 support detail
  • II. Main Topic
  • A. Subtopic
  • 1.1 support detail
  • 1.2 support detail
  • B. Subtopic
  • 1.1 support detail
  • 1.2 support detail
  • C. Subtopic
  • 1.1 support detail
  • 1.2 support detail
  • III. Conclusion