English for Academic & Professional Purposes

First Periodical Examination Reviewer

Academic Text 3. Cause and Effect

• A reading material that provides • Provide explanation or reason for

information which include concepts and phenomena
theories that are related to the specific
4. Problem/Solution
discipline.
• Includes: conference paper, articles, • Identify problems and pose solutions
thesis/dissertations, reviews
5. Comparison and contrast
Purposes in Reading an Academic Text
• Discuss two ideas, events, or
• To locate a main idea phenomena, showing how they are
• To scan for information different and how they are similar
• To identify gaps in existing studies
6. Definition and description
• To gain more pieces of information
• To support a particular writing • Describe a topic by listing characteristics,
assignment features, attributes
• To deeply understand an existing idea
Technique in Summarizing Variety of Academic
Structure of an Academic Text text

• Introduction Summarizing – how we take larger selections of

• Body text and reduce them to their bare essentials
• Conclusion
Basic rules:
Text Structure 1. Erase things that don’t matter
• The way authors organize information in
2. Erase things that repeat
text. (WDPI, 2012)
3. Trade, general terms for specific names
1. Narrative
4. Use your own words to write the summary
• An events/story with characters, setting,
conflict, point of view, and plot Techniques:
• Uses transitional devices
1. Somebody Wanted But So
2. Chronological process of sequence
• Recognize cause and effect relationship
• Presents ideas or events in the order in and find main ideas
which they happens
2. SAAC method
• Uses: first, second, later, next, then,
after, since. • Is an acronym for “State, Assign, Action
Complete”
3. 5 W’s, 1 H • Arranges a material in a logical way into
main ideas, supporting ideas, and
• Deals with the questions of Who, What,
supporting details.
When, Why, Where, and How. These
questions make it easy to identify the
• Can be a sentence outline or topic
main character, important details and
outline
main idea.
Literary Criticism
4. First then Finally
Approaches of Literary Criticism
• Helps student summarize event in
1. Formalist criticism
chronological order
• Contain intrinsic properties
5. Give me the gist
• Analysis on the formal feature of the
• Giving a friend the gist of the story. subject not on the profile of the creator.
• They want a summary – not a retelling of It examines the form of the work as a
every details whole

2. Gender/Feminism criticism
Thesis Statement
• Is the controlling idea that you will • Focuses on how literature present
develop in your paper women as subject of socio-political,
• Usually at the end of an introduction psychological, and economic
• Can be one, two or three sentences oppression.
• Examine how sexual identity influences
Elements of Thesis Statement the creation and reception of the
1. Topic subject.

• This can be found usually at the end of 3. Historical criticism

an introduction • Seeks to understand a literary work by
2. Argument/Claim investigating the socio, cultural, and
intellectual context that produced it.
• Depends on the type of paper; If it is an • In the light of historical evidence or
argumentative paper, then this should based on the context in which a work
express your opinion. If it is a research or was written
explanatory paper, this should explain
the purpose of your paper 4. Reader-Response criticism

3. Evidence • Concerned with the reviewers reaction

as an audience of a work
• The support for your argument/claim
5. Media criticism
Outline
• The act of closely examination and
• A design to follow when writing a judging the media
structure, a discourse, or an article
6. Marxist criticism are taken from a literary on academic
work then interpreted and explained in
• Concerned with differences between
a detailed way.
economic classes and implications of a
capitalism system 3. Clarification

7. Structuralism • A method of explanation in which the

points are organized from a general
• Focused on how human behavior is
abstract idea to specific and concreate
determined by social, cultural, and
example.
psychological structure.
Novel Concept
Three Ways of Elucidating a Concept
• The word “Novel” is not just a very
• A one-to-two page written document
compelling one. A good concept goes
describing an idea
beyond the ordinary to offer something
fresh and nothing if no generic and
• Summary document of a project brand.
proposal that tells what the project is all
about, the reasons for conducting.
• Novel comes from Latin “Novellus” to
“Novus” means new, fresh, and young.
1. Definition
Characteristics and Feature of Novel Concept
• Explaining the concept by answering, 1. Unique
“what does it mean?” this makes of an
illustration, examples, and description 2. Scientific

a. Informal 3. New, young, and fresh

• Giving of a parenthetical or brief 4. Follows structuralism (extensive)

explanation
5. Tool for data analysis and knowledge
• Uses known words like synonyms or
processing
antonyms
6. Formal concept analysis
b. Formal

• Giving of the term to be defined, the Examples of Novel Concept with Visual
and Graphic aids
category, and the quality that makes the
term difference from other terms in the
1. Developing a new product/service
same category.
a. Innovative Projects
c. Extended
a.1 Novel task cards – The student will visit
• Is a detailed way of defining a term and
different task stations that challenges them to
is usually a one paragraph
analyze a text thoroughly different tenses.
2. Explication
a.2 Theme park project – It is to design a theme
• A method of explanation in which park based upon the literary elements of a
sentences, verses, quotes, or phrases selection
a.3 Book headlines - It simultaneously reports
key information. The headline tells what the
article is about

a.4 Character Instagram – its is a more on the

social media platform. Also allows users to
create magazine artistically.

a.5 Novel Podcast project – It is about creating a

podcast episode on a book novel of their choice

2. A concept for constructing a facility

• A concept design represents the design

teams’ initial response to the project
brief. Followed by detailed design or
developed design during which all the
main components of the building and
how they fit together.

3. A concept from designing a new

transportation vehicle

• The action of transport is defined as a

particular improvement of a thing from
point A to a point B.
• Modes of transport included air, land,
water, cable, and space

4. A concept for acquiring a new or modified data

system

• The acquisition of information system

can either involve external services or
relying on internal development or
modification

5. Implementing a new business process

• Implementation in putting up a business

is a process of executing a plan on policy
that a concept become a reality.

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