ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES
TEXT
- It is composed of letters, words, symbols,
phrases, and numbers
ACADEMIC TEXT/WRITING
- is a clear, concise, focused, structured, and
backed up by evidence. Its purpose is to aid the
reader’s understanding. It has a normal tone
and style, but it is not complex and does not
require the use of long sentences and
complicated vocabulary.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING
- is a style of writing that is clear, concise, and
seeks to convey information and ideas quickly
in a professional setting.
SKIMMING
- the action of reading something quickly to
note only the important points.
SCANNING
- reading rapidly in order to find specific facts.
PRE-WRITING PROCESS
1. Brainstorming- when you responded with
ideas and concepts related to the broad
concept that your teacher gave you, you were
already generating possible topics for your
paper.
2. Free-writing- aside from brainstorming, you
can also use free-writing to generate ideas.
Free-writing is like brainstorming in that you
just write any idea that comes to your mind.
3. Clustering- this technique provides a graphic
representation of your ideas, allowing you to
visualize the connections and/or relationships
of your ideas.
THE WRITING PROCESS
- Developing your thesis statement. A thesis
statement is the claim or stand that you will
develop in your paper. It is the controlling idea
of your essay. It gives your readers idea of what
your paper is all about
- Organizing your paper. Your next task as a
writer is to support your thesis statement with
sufficient evidence, data, and examples.
- Organizing your ideas. Means finding the
connections of one point to another and
establishing a link from. Outlining is an
effective way of ensuing the logical flow of
your ideas. You may opt to use the standard
outline complete with roman numerals and
indentions or you may use lists, diagrams, or
maps.
• The introduction for academic essay
provides a background of your topic, poses
a question regarding the topic, explains
how the question is problematic and
significant, and gives the writer’s thesis
statement.
• After this one-or-two paragraph
introduction to your essay, develop the
body of your essay. This is where the bulk
of the essay is found and where you
develop an answer or propose a solution to
the thesis statement that you have given in
the introduction. You have to support your
main points and include the other details
that you would support your thesis
statement.
• Your conclusion should bring together the
points made in your paper and emphasize
your final point. The conclusion may also
leave a thought-provoking idea that you
wish your audience to consider.
THE POST-WRITING PROCESS
There are two processes involved in post-
writing: revising and editing. According to Murray
(2005: 273);
• REVISING is re-seeing the entire draft so that
the writer can deal with the large issues that
must be resolved before he or she deals with
 the line-by-line, word-by-word issues involved the texts by giving their thoughts or opinions
in EDITING. on an original text or certain piece of work.
• It is an avenue for students to share their
feelings on the topic.
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Before you start the actual process of
writing you need to make sure that the HOW TO WRITE A REACTION PAPER?
assumptions that you have about your topic can be
• Read and analyze the work thoroughly. It is
supported by evidence. This can be done by
crucial that you fully understand why you are
making sure that you have enough resources on
writing and what you are reacting to.
that topic
• Craft your thesis statement. Know the idea of
your overarching angle.
PLAGIARISM COULD BE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
• Create the paper’s outline (prewriting).
• Deliberate copying of somebody else’s work
• Compose the first draft (writing).
and claiming that the work to be his/her own.
• Using somebody else’s work or ideas without • Polish and repeat (post writing).
proper acknowledgement or citation; and
• Copying the text without paraphrasing it.
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REACTION
PAPER IN THE SOCIETY?
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
• It will allow the writers to articulate their
• PARAPHRASING is one of the ways to avoid thoughts/opinions about issues familiar and
plagiarism. It is rendering the essential ideas in relevant to them as they express their views,
a text (sentence or paragraph) using your own enabling them to share their point or a
words. When you paraphrase, it is advised that contrary viewpoint.
you first understand what the text is about and
then write your rendition of the text without
referring to it as you write. APA FORMAT 7TH EDITION
• QUOTATIONS must be identical to the original JOURNAL ARTICLE
text. DIRECT QUOTATION is preferred to a
paraphrase when the author’s ideas are so
important that paraphrasing them will change
the essence of those ideas.
• SUMMARIZING is selecting out key features of
a text to create a shorter version. It is a brief
restatement of a text’s main points.

WHAT IS A REACTION PAPER?

• A reaction paper is typically a 2–5-page
document in which the writer responds to one
or more texts.
• Its aim is to encourage students to think
critically about texts as they reflect and analyze
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