The document outlines questions related to objectivity, explicitness, hedging, and accuracy which are important concepts in academic writing. Group 2 discusses the difference between objectivity and subjectivity, and the importance of applying objectivity in academic texts. Group 3 focuses on explicitness, its use in writing, and importance. Group 4 covers hedging, how to identify credible sources, and using caution. Group 5 addresses accuracy, applying it in academic texts, and ways to make a text accurate.
The document outlines questions related to objectivity, explicitness, hedging, and accuracy which are important concepts in academic writing. Group 2 discusses the difference between objectivity and subjectivity, and the importance of applying objectivity in academic texts. Group 3 focuses on explicitness, its use in writing, and importance. Group 4 covers hedging, how to identify credible sources, and using caution. Group 5 addresses accuracy, applying it in academic texts, and ways to make a text accurate.
The document outlines questions related to objectivity, explicitness, hedging, and accuracy which are important concepts in academic writing. Group 2 discusses the difference between objectivity and subjectivity, and the importance of applying objectivity in academic texts. Group 3 focuses on explicitness, its use in writing, and importance. Group 4 covers hedging, how to identify credible sources, and using caution. Group 5 addresses accuracy, applying it in academic texts, and ways to make a text accurate.
1. Difference between objectivity and subjectivity.
2. What makes an academic text objective? How? 3. How can you say that the text is fact? 4. Will you read an academic text when the writer did not apply objectivity? 5. What is the importance of objectivity in academic writing? 6. How can we apply objectivity? 7. Is it possible to write an academic text without objectivity? 8. Is objectivity important? Group 3 1. Difference between explicit and implicit. 2. How do you write explicitness in writing? 3. When do we use explicitness in writing? 4. Is it possible to write an academic text without explicitness? 5. What is the importance of explicitness? 6. Do we apply explicitness in everyday life? 7. Why should the writer need to be explicit in the acknowledgement of the sources? 8. Is explicitness important? Group 4 1. How do you use caution/hedging in academic writing? 2. Why do we need to use hedging? 3. How do you make a sentence more cautious? 4. Hedging is the use of linguistics devices to express hesitation, the question is how can a writer say that the statement that they will be giving is unsure? 5. How can we identify credible sources? 6. Is it possible to write academic text without caution/hedging? 7. Will you read an academic text when the writer did not apply caution in his/her work? Group 5 1. Can you say that the statement is not accurate when it presented information with motives/agenda? How? 2. Will the statement that will be presented by the writer is still accurate when they used a source that is 20 years ago? 3. How can we apply accuracy in academic text? 4. What is the importance of academic text? 5. Main aspects of accuracy. 6. What does it mean to be accurate? 7. How can you make the text accurate? List down at least 5 ways.