Chapter 1- Academic Text Flashcards
It is the process with posing a question, problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion, and ends in answering the questions posed, clarifying the problem, and/or arguing for a stand 🤓
Academic text/ writing
Also referred to as story grammar, which addresses the structural elements of the story.
RECOGNIZE STORY PATTERNS
Helps the students about character, fictional, and nonfictional, and his/her experiences.
Narrative text
It is the Clarity of the purpose and the thesis statement, relevance of the supporting points to the thesis, knowledge of the subject matter.
Content
What are the 4 elements in writing an academic text
Content
Structure
Language and style
Mechanics
Coherence and logical sequence of idea
Structure
Is an active process of discovery. Involves scrutinizing any information that you read or hear.
Critical reading
What are the 4 ways to help you to become a critical reader?
Annotating
Outlining
Summarizing
Evaluating
Word choice, sentence construction
Language and style
Grammar, punctuations, capitalization, formatting, and documentation
Mechanics
It is an active process of discovery because when you read critically, you are not just receiving informations but also an interaction with the writer
Critical reading
Underline,circle, or highlight words, phrases, or sentences that contain important details.
Annotating
Identify the main points of the writer and list them down so you can also identify the ideas that the writer has raised to support his or her stand. •get the thesis statement and must assist with supporting details.
Outlining
Get the main idea and write its gist/essence in your own words. This will test how you understood the text.
Summarizing
Questions the author’s purpose and intentions, as well as his or her assumptions in the claims.
Evaluating
What are the 4 piece to identify the main idea or thesis statement?
Test/keen
Evaluate
Judge
Assess
Usage of empathy: heart/feeling
Misericordiam
Attacking the person not the story/argument
Ad hominem
It is gathering ideas and helps to prepare students for writing by allowing them to discover what they should know and what else they need to know
Pre-writing
Snappy in gaining knowledge. It is using the brain to breakdown to form a creative problem and so in commando fashion, with each stormer attacking the same objective. (Osborn 1939)
Brainstorming
Commando fashion
Quick giving of ideas or fluency thinking
Put down into writing the ideas that you think of so that later on you will be able to generate ideas and narrow them into single topic for your paper,
Prewriting
Provides a graphic representation of your ideas, allowing to visualize the connections and/or relations of you ideas.
Clustering
Copying someone’s work without giving the proper credit
Plagiarism
Own rendition of essential informations and ideas expressed by someone else presented in a new form.
More detailed restatement than a summary which focuses concisely on a single main idea.
Paraphrasing
Copying directly from a text word for word.
Quoting
To rewrite the sentence using words, different grammars, and different word orders.
Paraphrasing
This is a statement or a theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
Thesis statement
What are the characteristics of an effective thesis statement?
A strong TS usually contains UNCERTAINTY, RISKY, or CHALLENGING that it should offer a debatable claim that can be PROVEN or DISAPPROVED in the essay.
It is important that a thesis is NOT TOO GENERAL
What are the 5 steps on how to state a TS in Academic Writing
UDWBA
What are the genres and types of a TS?
Argumentative essay
Analytical essay
Expository essay
Narrative essay
Type of essay that states your own POV/stand
Argumentative essay / pre writing stage
Type of essay that Breakdowns of ideas
Analytical essay
Type of TS that expose the positive/Negative on a certain issue
Expository essay
Telling something that has positive output
Narrative essay
Organizing ideas being gathered in pre writing into draft
Writing stage
Provide a background of your topic, poses a question regarding the topic,explains how question is problematic & significant and gives the writer’s TS
Introduction
Where bulk of essay is found and where answer or purpose solution to the TS develops.
Body
Brings together the points made in your paper and emphasize the final point
Conclusion
Unified/coherent;writing is a work in progress
Post writing stage
Reseeing the entire draft so that the writer can deal with the large issue that must be resolved
Revising
Process can involve correction condensation organization and many more modifications performed with an intention of producing a CORRECT, ACCURATE, CONSISTENT, AND COMPLETE WORK.
Editing
Meaning of MLA
Modern Language Association
Meaning of APA
American Psychological Association