English for Academic and Professional Purposes Flashcards
_______ is defined as critical, objective, specialized texts written by experts or professionals
Academic Text
Generally quite formal, objective (impersonal) and technical
Academic Text
What are the 2 types to avoid in Academic Text?
Casual or Conversational Language
Contraction or Informal Vocabular
It is _______ and ______ by avoiding direct reference to people or feelings, and instead emphasizing objects, facts, and ideas.
Impersonal and Objective
3 examples of academic writing are as follows :
Literary Analysis
Research Paper
Dissertation
A ________ essay examines, evaluates, and makes an argument about literary work.
Literary Analysis
A _______ uses outside information to support a thesis or make an argument.
Research Paper
________ are written in all disciplines and may be evaluative, analytical, or critical in nature.
Research Paper
A _________ is a document submitted at the conclusion of a Ph.D. program.
Dissertation
The ___________ is a book- length summarization of doctoral candidate’s research
Dissertation
is an important feature of academic writing.
Structure
A well - structured text enables the reader to follow the argument and navigate the text.
Structure
The three- part of essay structure
Introduction
The body
Conclusion
Its purpose is to clearly tell the reader the topic, purpose, and structure of the paper.
Introduction
The most general information, such as background and/or definitions.
Introductions
Where you show the overall topic, purpose, your point of view, hypotheses, and/or research questions ( depending on what kind of paper it is.)
Introduction
The most specific information describes the scope and structure of your paper.
Introduction
It develops the question, “What is the topic about?.
The body
It may elaborate directly on the topic sentence by giving definitions, classifications, explanations, contrasts, examples, and evidence.
The body
The ________ usually begins by briefly summarizing the main scope or structure of the paper, confirms the topic that was given in the introduction, and ends with a more general statement about how this topic relates to its context
Conclusion
What is the structure of IMRaD?
Introduction
Methods
Results
and Discussion
The introduction usually depicts the background of the topic and the central focus of the study.
The IMRaD structure
The _______ lets your readers know your data collection methods, research instrument employed, sample size, and so on.
Methodology
_________ and __________ states the brief summary of the key findings or the results of your study.
Results, Discussion
