EAPP Flashcards
(43 cards)
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- What is valued in an academic text is that opinions are based on a sound understanding of the pertinent body of knowledge and academic debates that exist within, and often external to a specific discipline.
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Evidence-based Arguments
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This technique helps summarize events or steps in chronological order or in sequence.
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First Then Finally.
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This technique relies on six crucial questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How. These questions make it easy to identify the main character, important details and main idea. Your summary may not necessarily follow this order as long as it contains all of these information.
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5W’s, 1H.
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- emphasizes the importance of the author’s life and background into account when analyzing a text.
- Focus on the life and background of the writer/artist and connect it to the Subject of Your review or critic.
- How did the life of Jose Rizal affect his written works?
- How did Pablo Picasso’s life experiences shape his painting style?
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Biographical criticism
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- the language used in classroom lessons, books, tests and assignments
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Academic Language
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- Formal and logical (Introduction, Body, Conclusion)
- It must be cohesive and possess a logically organized flow of ideas, this means that various parts are connected to form a unified whole
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Structure
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- The claim or stand that you will develop in your paper.
- Controlling idea of your essay
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THESIS STATEMENT
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Guidelines on writing an effective Thesis statement
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Avoid making overly-opinionated stands
Avoid making announcements
Avoid stating facts alone
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- A summary that gives the essential features of a text.
- It shows how the parts of a text are related to one another as parts that are of equal importance, or sections that are subordinate to a main idea.
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OUTLINE
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- This text structure shows how two or more ideas or items are similar or different.
- The text may use a clustered approach, with details about one topic followed by the details about the other. It may also show an alternating approach, with the author going back between the two topics.
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Compare-Contrast
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- Emphasizes on how power, politics, and money play a role in literary texts and amongst literary societies and characters.
- Focus on how class, power, race and economic status affect the content and theme of a certain work
- In what way did the story reflect the socio-economic status of the characters?
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Marxist Criticism
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- It is important to use unambiguous language
- Clear topic sentences enable a reader to follow your line of thinking without difficulty.
- Formal language and the third person point-of-view should be used.
- Technical language appropriate to area of study may also be used, however, it does not mean using “big words” just for the sake of doing so.
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Language
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- emphasizes the form of a literary to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.
- Focus on the elements, structure and principles that govern a certain text, artworks, movie, book, poems, etc.
- Poem (meter, figurative devices, imagery, theme)
- Books/stories (setting, characters, plot)
- Movies (sound effects, transition, shots)
- Artistic expression (lines, colors, shapes, rhythm, texture, Sound)
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Formalism
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- The text structure presents a problem, and shows how it can be (or has been) solved.
- The key difference between cause-effect and problem-solution is that the latter always present a solution while the former does not.
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Problem-Solution
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- It should not be conversational or casual.
- Avoid Colloquial, idiomatic, slang expressions, contractions
- X dig in, cup of tea, dude, don’t
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Formal
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- Used to get the main ideas of a text that is already written
- Helps you understand the text’s structure more critically because you will have to find the text’s thesis statement and supporting details.
- you will better understand how a writer connects and sequences the information in the reading text.
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Reading outline
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- Steps described in the order they occur.
- It does not take place in a specific point in time.
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Sequence
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- Unbiased, based on facts and is not influenced by personal feelings
- ‘the essay on …is distressing’ — ‘ I do not like the essay’
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Objective
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- Do not refer to yourself as the performer of actions.
- Do not use personal pronouns
- ‘it is commonly said that’ — ‘many of my friends say that’
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Impersonal
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usually contains an element of uncertainty, risk or challenge (Ramage, Bean, and Johnson 2006:34).
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strong thesis statement
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- Emphasizes the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts.
- Focus on how women are portrayed in a certain literary work, in arts, in commercials, in movie, etc.
- Are women viewed as inferior beings in the movie? How were they portrayed?
- What aspect of the painting mirrors the patriarchal ideology in our society?
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Feminism
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- Skeletal version of your essay
- used as a guide to organize your ideas.
- Usually done before you write the first draft of your essay.
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Writing outline
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This method is particularly helpful in learning the format of a summary. This includes the title and author’s name.
State— The name of the article, book, movie
Assign – the name of the author
Action – what the author is doing (ex. Tells, Explains)
Complete- complete the sentence or summary with keywords and important details.
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SAAC Method.
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is a reading material that provides information, which include theories and concepts that are related to the specific discipline.
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Academic Text
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Types of Outlines:
* the headings are given in sing words or brief phrases.
* all headings are expressed in complete sentences.
Topic outline -
Sentence outline -
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An outline is a map of your essay. It shows what information each section or paragraph will contain and in what order.
Outlining.
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* It is also known as time order.
* This structure is organized from one point in time to another
Chronological Order
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refers to the internal organization of a text.
text structure
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Each word represents a key question related to a text's essential elements:
Somebody—Who is the text about?
Wanted—What did the main character want?
But—What was the problem encountered?
So—How was the problem solved?
Then—How did it end?
Somebody Wanted But So Then.
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- Citing sources or providing list of references is a very important aspect of an academic text
- Essential to always acknowledge the source as a defense against allegations of plagiarism.
Citation
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- An academic text addresses complex issues that require higher-order thinking skills to comprehend.
Complexity
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- Simple, informal language we use when talking face to face with fam and friends.
- Allows us to use contemporary or slang terms like ‘cool’, awesome’, ‘dude’
- We can also communicate feelings, needs and wants using symbolic hand gestures for drink, eat, hot, cold, hurt or tired.
- Includes writing emails, friendly letters, and texts or retelling stories.
- Repetition of words
- Sentences start with ‘and’ ‘but’
Social Language
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give 8 examples of academic text
- Academic Journals
- Essay
- Conference Paper
- Feasibility Study
- Reports
- Research Paper
- Reviews
- Thesis/Dissertation
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- Emphasizes that the meaning of a text is dependent upon the reader’s response to it
- Focus on the meaning you created while reading a text. Focuses on your personal connection and understanding of the subject of your review.
- What emotion did you experience after reading the poem?
Reader-response criticism
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* This structure shows how one or more causes led to one or more effects.
* Many texts do not include just one cause leading to one effect– instead, there may be several causes and several effects.
Cause-Effect
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* This text structure convinces readers to agree to an argument or claim about a particular topic
Persuasion
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- Facts are presented accurately.
- Choice of words are appropriate
- Use of technical terms to achieve precision is applied.
- ‘85% of the population’, ‘ the results are okay’(satisfactory), ‘ asphyxiation’(medical term)
Precise
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- Refers to the attitude conveyed in a piece of writing
- The arguments are fairly presented and with an appropriate narrative tone.
- When presenting a position or argument that disagrees with one’s perspective, describe the argument accurately without loaded or biased language
Tone
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defines as reducing text to one-third or one-quarter its original size, clearly articulating the author's meaning, and retaining main ideas.
summarizing
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- posits that every literary work is the product of the time and its world
- Focus on the era and significant events that happened during the time the text/movie chuchu was produced.
- How did Juan Luna’s ‘spolarium’ depict the happening during the time it was painted?
Historical criticism
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- The oral, written, auditory, and visual language proficiency required to learn effectively in schools and academic programs.
Academic Language
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- The starting point of an academic text is a particular perspective, idea or position applied to the chosen research problem, such as establishing, proving, or disproving solutions to the questions posed for the topic.
Thesis-driven
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* An exemplification paragraph develops a general statement--the topic sentence--with one or more specific examples.
* A classification paragraph divides things into groups, classes, or categories.
* It also organizes ideas into divisions based on criteria or standards.
Exemplification/Classification
