Grade 11: English for Academic and Professional Purposes

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QUARTER 1 WEEK 8

Content Standard The learner understands the principles and uses of a concept paper.
Performance Standard The learner produces a well-balanced concept paper in a specific discipline
Learning Competencies Determines the ways a writer can elucidate on a concept by definition, explication and
clarification.
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Topic 8: Ways the Elucidate a Concept

What is concept?
A concept is a general idea about a thing or group of things, derived from specific instances or occurrences.
Concept was borrowed from Late Latin conceptus, from Latin concipere “take in”, conceive, receive.

Explain a Concept Paper According by:

1. Definition
It is the method of identifying a given term and making its meaning clearer. This mode of explanation contains
the term to be defined and the detailed exposition of the term through the use of illustrations, examples, and
description.

Purpose
a. To clarify meaning of words, or to correct misinterpretation, or misuse of a term.
b. To stipulate the meaning of a term by limiting, extending, or redirecting the sense in which a term is
usually understood; to use a term, borrowed from another field of knowledge in a special way.

Definition can be presented in 3 ways.

a. Formal – It follows the pattern or equation: term + genus + differentia. A term to be defined (species),
the general category of the term (genus), and the quality that makes the term different from other terms in
the same category (differentia).
Example
Robot is a machine that looks like a human being and performs complex acts of a human being.

term genus differentia

b. Informal – is done though a parenthetical or brief explanation.

Example
Tocopheral (Vitamin E) is naturally found in vegetable oil, fish and nuts.

c. Extended – It details way of defining a term and is usually composed of at least one paragraph. This
incorporations various patterns of development (e.g. formal and informal definition, synonym, semantic
history, illustration, function, analysis, similarity, analogy, contrast, negation, etc.)

2. Explication
A method of explanation in which sentences, verses, quotes, or passages are taken from a literary or
academic work and then interpreted and explained in a detailed way.

3. Clarification
It is a method in which the points are organized from a general abstract idea to specific and concrete
examples. It entails the analysis of the concept by looking at the examples and specifying some of its
characteristics to arrive at one working definition which can be used throughout the paper.

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LEARNING TASK 1: Complete the table below by filling in the missing information. Identify the manner of elucidating
the concept if it is Definition, Clarification or Explication.
Concept
1.) Automatic Center Punch
2.) Justice
3.) The Road Not Taken
4.) Cave Paintings
5.) Boondocks
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Manner of Elucidating the
Concept
Sentence (Definition/Clarification
/Explication)
The automatic center punch is a device used to
make a pinpoint indentation in a hard material
such as metal or plastic without the use of a
hammer.
Justice is a broad concept which encompasses
a wide set of ideas, most of which also branch
out into smaller notions. For instance, it can
refer to the sentencing of a criminal based on
due process. When an individual gets what he
deserves, even outside the hands of the law, it
is also considered justice in some context. This
may come in the form of vigilante justice, in
which a person dissatisfied with the system
doles out punishing to wrong-doers.
The speaker in the poem, The Road Not Taken
uses the word “sigh” to signify possible future
regret for the decision that he made when faced
with two paths. While the poem focuses on two
physical paths-roads diverging in a “yellow
wood”, the speaker is alluding to metaphorical
paths– two possible choices that will alter the
course of his life.
From the moment in 1879 that cave paintings
were discovered at Altamira, scholars have
wondered why the hunter-artists of the Old
Stone Age decided to cover the walls of dark
caverns with animal images. Various answers
have been given, including that they were mere
decoration, but this theory cannot explain the
narrow range of subjects of the inaccessibility of
many of the paintings. In fact, the remoteness
and difficulty of access of many of the cave
paintings and the fact they appear to have been
used for centuries are precisely what have led
many scholars to suggest that the prehistoric
hunters attributed magical properties to the
images they painted.
Boondocks (1944), a remote rural area, back
country, an isolated or wild region filled with
dense brush, comes from Tagalog bundok,
“mountain.” An “s” was added, since English
has the tendency to affix that letter to locations,
as in the sticks (a synonym for the boondocks),
the damps, and the woods. While the word
means “mountain” to the people of the
Philippines, American soldiers extended the
meaning to any kind of rough country or out-of-
the-way locale.
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LEARNING TASK 2: Directions: Read and analyze the text below. Then, answer the comprehension questions that
follow.

(1) “Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or
through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws.

(2) It encompasses social, economic, and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political
self-determination.

(3) The term originates from the Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía) “rule of the people,” which was coined from
δήμοϚ (dêmos) “people” and κράτϚ (kratos) “power) or “rule” in the 5th century BCE to denote the political systems
then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens.

(4) The term is an antonym to άριοτοκρατíα (aristokratia) “rule of an elite.”

(5) While theoretically these definitions are in opposition, in practice, the distinction has been blurred historically.

(6) The political system of Classical Athens, for example, granted democratic citizenship to an elite class of free
men and excluded slaves and women from political participation.

(7) In virtually all democratic governments throughout ancient and modern history, democratic citizenship
consisted of an elite class until full enfranchisement was won for all adult citizens in most modern democracies through
the suffrage movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

(8) The English word dates to the 16th century, from the older Middle French and Middle Latin equivalents.

(9) Democracy contrasts with forms of government where power is either held by one person, as in a monarchy,
or where power is held by a small number of individuals, as in an oligarchy.

(10) Nevertheless, these oppositions, inherited from Greek philosophy, are now ambiguous because
contemporary governments have mixed democratic, oligarchic, and monarchic elements.

(11) Karl Popper defined democracy in contrast to dictatorship or tyranny, thus focusing on opportunities for the
people to control their leaders and to oust them without the need for a revolution.” (Project Gutenberg Self Publishing
Press).

Comprehension questions:
1. What is the concept being presented?

2. What technique/s is used to develop the concept?

3. Is/Are the technique/s used effective in explaining the concept? Why do you say so?

4. Does the development of the concept emphasize only relevant information?

5. Is the concept discussed clearly that it can be easily related to experience?

Rubrics of Answering the Question Each Item

5 4 3 2 1
Criteria Outstanding Very Satisfactory Adequate Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Content All ideas of are Few ideas are not Some ideas are Mostly of the ideas All ideas are not
relevant to the relevant to the not relevant to the are not relevant to relevant to the
question. question. question. the question. question.

References:
PDF Coffee, (2021). English for Academic and Professional Purposes QUARTER 1– MODULE 7
retrieved from https://pdfcoffee.com/eapp-q1-module-pdf-free.html on November 22, 2021.
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