EAPP Flashcards
- Stock knowledge
- Reader’s weapon in reading
Schemata
Approaches in reading
- Top-down approach
- Bottom-up approach
- Interactive approach
Understanding is reliant on the schemata
Top-down approach
Understanding is reliant on the details of the text
Bottom-up approach
Understanding is equally reliant on the schemata and text
Interactive approach
Transforming verbs to nouns
Nominalization
Use of passive voice in statement
Passivization
To explain a concept or phenomenon
Description
Enumerate a series of events, either in numerical or chronological order
Sequence
Identifying similarities and differences
Comparison
Explains a phenomenon and the reason for its existence
Cause and effect
Render a set of difficulties that is immediately followed by a solution to the problem
Problem-solution
Ways to main objectivity in an academic text
- Avoid personal pronouns
- Avoid rhetorical question
- Avoid emotive language
Providing readers with enough assistance in finding out what the salient pieces of information are in an academic text
Explicit
Refer to the varying stages or processes that readers have to undergo in reading academic texts
Phases
