Academic Essays Flashcards
What is the language needed by students to do work in schools?
Academic Language
Academic Language is the language to write formally in schools.
It focuses on evidence-based arguments and logical reasoning to guide a reader’s understanding of a subject.
Academic Writing
Academic writing is guiding the reader to help them understand the topic by focusing on evidence-based arguments.
It contains contents on a specific discipline or field, and it is always in a formal way of writing.
Academic Essays
Academic Essays is a formal writing paper that contains contents on a specific discipline or field.
It is a type of essay that are often anecdotal, experimental, and personal - allowing students to express themselves in a creative and quite often, moving ways.
Narrative
**Narrative **are the type of essay that brings personal justifications about the writer to express themselves in a creative way.
It is a type of essay that required the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner.
Expository
Expository, in the term “expose”, tells the reader to investigate an idea, and expound them to set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner.
It is a type of essay that asks the student to describe something - object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation, etc.
Descriptive
Descriptive is a type of essay that describes about the object, and such.
It is an argumentative essay that is a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic, collect, generate and evaluate evidence, and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.
Argumentative/Persuasive
Argumentative/Persuasive essay moves the reader to hear their point of view and clarify about a concerning idea.
Telling a story is a form of what in an introduction?
Creating a context
Creating a context helps the reader to understand what topic is the introduction all about.
It is the part of an essay that introduces and creates a context for the subject and topic. It describes the structure of the essay, and establishes the paper’s argument or thesis.
Introduction
Introduction is the first part of an essay to introduce the topic before finishing.
In an introduction, it focuses on introducing the central points and describing the authors plan for supporting them.
Describing the structure
Desrcibing the structure focuses on introducing the central points and describing the plan for support.
It is designed to make a central claim that the reader gains a better understanding of a particular subject.
Introducing the Central Argument
**Introducing the central argument **creates a central claim to get the reader understand better of a particular subject.
What is this part of the essay that lays out the evidence and information proving your argument or thesis?
Body
Body is the second part of the essay that lays out the evidence and information to support the argument.
This lays out the paragraph’s topic. It is seen as the first sentence of the paragraph.
Topic Sentence
Topic sentence is seen first in the introduction part of the essay.
It explains, clarify, and help readers better understand the topic.
A set of explanatory sentences
A set of explanatory sentences helps the readers understand better of the topic.
It provides readers with analysis of the paragraph importance.
A set of analysis sentences
A set of analysis sentences provides readers with the importance of a paragraph with analysis.
It is the final part of the essay. A strong end for the study.
Conclusion
Conclusion is the last part of the essay that restate the thesis and ends the study.
