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􏰀 Written by Professional in the given field 􏰀 Well edited and often take years to publish 􏰀 Use formal language 􏰀 Contains words and terms specific to the field

Academic text

􏰀 Contains list of sources and references 􏰀 Main goal is to advance human understanding in a particular discipline 􏰀 Can be challenging for the novice/beginner readers 􏰀 Informative, argumentative, or objective in nature

Academic text

Example of Academic Text:

S - School books or text books J - Journal Articles R - Research proposal and papers S - Some News papers and magazine articles T - Thesis and dissertations

Types of Academic text

D - DESCRIPTIVE A - ANALYTICAL P - PERSUASIVE C - CRITICAL

Provides fact and information Identify, report, record, summarize, define

DESCRIPTIVE

Organizes facts and information into categories, groups, parts, types, or relationship Analyze, compare, contrast relate, examine

ANALYTICAL

Includes argument, recommendation, interpretation, or evaluation of the works of others with the addition of your own point of view Needs to be supported by the evidence Argue, evaluate, discuss, take a position

PERSUASIVE

Requires you to consider at least two points of view, including your own. Critique, debate, disagree and evaluate

CRITICAL

􏰀 Written for the mass public 􏰀 Published quickly and can be written by anyone 􏰀 Often doesn’t involve research or sources 􏰀 Use informal and conversational language 􏰀 May contain slang

Non-academic text

􏰀 Author may be unknown 􏰀 Usually delivers simple and basic information 􏰀 Can be read and easily understood by any kind of readers 􏰀 Personal, emotional, impressionistic, or subjective in nature

Non-academic text

Example of Non-Academic Text:

B - Blog post F - Fiction books L - Letters P - Personal journal or diaries

Structures of Academic Text:

Definition Description Recount of Sequence Cause and Effect Comparison and contrast Enumeration PROBLEM SOLUTION Classification Thesis evidence

explain the nature of something

Definition

gives concrete details about the appearance, characteristics and actions

Description

chronological narration

Recount of sequence

presents the reason why a situation is obtained

Cause and effect

presents similarities and differences

Comparison and contrast

listing parts and characteristics, of examples.

Enumeration

starts off with a negative situation and ends with a positive situation

Problem solution

presents groupings, types, classes, categories

Classification

argues, points, interpretation

Thesis evidence

The ____ method is another useful technique for summarizing any kind of text (such as a story, an article, or a speech). _____ is an acronym for "State, Assign, Action, Complete." Each word in the acronym refers to a specific element that should be included in the summary.

SAAC

The ________ strategy relies on six crucial questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how. These questions make it easy to identify the main character, important details, and main idea

5 W's, 1 H

The ___________ technique helps students summarize events in chronological order. The three words represent the beginning, main action, and conclusion of a story, respectively:

First Then Finally

• Is the central idea of a text • Summarizes topic and arguments of the writer about the topic • Can be one or two sentence long

Thesis statements

The main idea of one paragraph only

TOPIC SENTENCE

The central idea of the whole paper

THESIS STATEMENTS

• Means straight forward • The thesis statement is obviously written in a text • It usually located at the end of introduction

EXPLICIT

• The thesis statement is not written in a text • Readers will formulate thesis statements based on their understanding of the text

IMPLICIT

PARTS OF THESIS STATEMENTS

TOPIC POSITION REASON/S CONCESSION

Subject of the text

TOPIC

Your stand on our topic

POSITION

Explanation and Justification of your position

REASON/S

The opposing viewpoint on the topic

CONCESSION

Models of Thesis Statement

Basic Thesis Statement = Topic + Position Thesis Statement Concession = Basic Thesis Statement + Concession Thesis Statement with Concession and Reason/s = Thesis Statement with Concession + Reason/s Thesis Statement with Reason/s = Basic Thesis Statement + Reason/s

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