Academic text style and structure
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This document provides information about academic texts, including their purpose, structure, and common writing styles. It notes that the purpose of reading academic texts includes locating main ideas, scanning for information, identifying gaps in existing studies, connecting new ideas to existing ones, gaining more pieces of information, and supporting writing assignments. The document outlines the typical structure of academic texts as introduction, body, and conclusion. It describes common academic text writing styles such as stating critical questions and issues, providing facts and evidence from credible sources, using precise language while avoiding jargon, taking an objective point of view, and listing references.
Academic text style and structure
- 1. Instructor: Mrs. Jelliane Rose D. Villacuatro
- 3. Mechanics: 1. The class will count off from 1-3. 2. Each student gets into their group number. 3. The teacher will read a passage. 4. The groups decide if its formal or fiction. 5. The highest scorer among the groups wins.
- 4. Passage 1 If you establish the purpose for reading early on, you will be able to save time and improve your comprehension.
- 5. Passage 2 Plagiarism is the use of ideas or any relevant information of another without giving proper credit or acknowledgment.
- 6. Passage 3 He saw the pure crystal water from where the lass is heavenly plunged.
- 7. Passage 4 When you synthesize information, you develop new understanding about a topic by using information from more than one source.
- 8. Passage 5 Just as the sun rises and peeps from the east, and as the roosters of the neighborhood crow, vivid came the assiduous man.
- 9. Academic Text: Style and Structure
- 10. ACADEMIC TEXT Articles Conference Papers Reviews Theses/ Dissertations
- 11. What is an Academic Text?
- 12. An academic text is a reading material that provides information which include concepts and theories that are related to the specific discipline.
- 13. How does an academic text usually look like?
- 14. Structure of an Academic Text Introduction Body Conclusion
- 15. Why do I read an Academic Text?
- 16. Purposes in reading an Academic Text To locate a main idea To scan for information To identify gaps in existing studies To connect new ideas to existing ones To gain more pieces of information To support a particular writing assignment To deeply understand an existing idea
- 17. What do authors observe in writing an Academic Text?
- 18. Common styles in writing an Academic Text State critical questions and issues Provide facts and evidence from credible sources Use precise and accurate words while avoiding jargon Take an objective point of view List references Use cautious language
- 19. End
- 20. Q Time
- 21. Quiz 1: Academic Text
- 22. Instruction: Write True if the statement is CORRECT and False if it is NOT.
- 23. 1. One of the purposes of reading an academic text is to look for a specific information.
- 24. 2. An academic text makes use of complex jargons to promote a higher level of comprehension.
- 25. 3. It uses words which tones up claims expressing certainty.
- 26. 4. It helps fill existing gaps between information.
- 27. 5. An academic text observes a format.
- 28. 6. In reading an academic text, it helps acquire new information.
- 29. 7. An academic text needs less concentration and focus because the terms are simple.
- 30. 8. It is in academic text that issues are stated to provoke information discussion.
- 31. 9. A magazine is an academic text.
- 32. 10. Critique paper is classified as an academic text.
- 33. Academic Text: Style and Structure