EFAPP

• Academic writing is important to communicate using the appropriate language needed in formal communication
• The goal of academic writing is to communicate
• It is essential to apply the appropriate language, learn the rules, and practice writing
• Academic writing is a required core subject in senior high school
• The skill of writing is a necessity for academic and professional purposes
• Academic writing is a measure of one's professionalism
• Academic writing seeks to simplify complex messages providing a common understanding with the target audience
• Academic writing is fundamental to achieving higher education
• Academic writing serves as the window of one's thoughts
• Academic writing aids in one's understanding of the intended message or text
• Characteristics or features of a text (FECOS)

  • Formal or informal
  • Explicit or implicit
  • Complex or simple
  • Objective or subjective
  • Specific or holistic
• Formal or informal


  A text used for academic and professional purposes makes use of formal rather than informal language
• Explicit or implicit


  A text used for academic and professional purposes makes use of explicit or observable clear and precise facts rather than implicit, unclear, unspecified facts
• Complex or simple


  A text used for academic and professional purposes is simplified to reach or connect with its target audience or readers
• Objective or subjective


  A text for academic and professional purposes uses behavioral objectives that could be seen and touched by the senses
• Specific or holistic


  An academic text could be written using either parts to whole approach (specific) or whole to parts approach (holistic)
• Features of academic writing (CFPO)

  • Complexity
  • Formality
  • Precision
  • Objectivity
• Complexity


  Through written language, complex ideas could be simplified using simple language or commonly used idioms that are understandable to a specific target audience
• Formality


  Academic writing uses formal language rather than slang or informal language
• Precision


  In academic writing, facts and figures could be quoted from exact sources for further reference
• Objectivity


  Written language could provide more explicit or objective purpose of communication
• Good academic writing is transparent
• Right from the start, the reader should have a clear understanding of the author's purpose, argument, and structure
• Characteristics of good academic writing

  • Use good ideas
  • Has a clear sense of audience, genre, and purpose
  • Use appropriate conjunctions for ideas to flow logically
• Your ideas are the most important element of your project
• Before showing final drafts to other readers, attention should be paid to style, grammar, and mechanics
• Mechanics


  Includes punctuation, capitalization, and margins
• Good academic writing should keep in mind the rhetorical purpose and academic standards
• Questions to consider in academic writing

  • Who is your audience?
  • What is your purpose?
  • What is the genre of what you are writing?
• Guidelines to answer the "So What" question

  • What is the issue?
  • What are the specific questions surrounding the issue?
  • What is the context and background of the issue?
  • Why does the issue matter?
• If the work answers these questions and tackles the answers, the paper will be successful
• Use appropriate conjunctions for ideas to flow logically using a certain pattern
• Use transition words, signal phrases, and verbs that tell the reader your stand based on the given evidence from verifiable sources
• Academic writing is important to communicate using the appropriate language needed in formal communication.
• Academic writing is a required core subject in senior high school.
• The skill of writing is a necessity to be able to communicate.
• Academic writing is essential to apply the appropriate language, learn the rules, and practice writing skills for academic and professional purposes.
• Academic writing is important because it is a measure of one's professionalism.
• Academic writing is fundamental to achieving higher education.
• Academic writing serves as the window of one's thoughts.