Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Laguna
Siniloan Integrated National High School
Siniloan, Laguna

FIRST MONTHLY TEST

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

I. ACADEMIC WRITING STYLE

Identify the informal expressions in the following sentences. Write it on your answer sheet.
1. With women especially, there is a lot of social pressure to conform to a certain physical shape.
2. Significantly, even at this late date, Lautrec was considered a bit conservative by
his peers.
3. It focused on a subject that a lot of the bourgeois and upper-class exhibition-going public regarded as anti-social
and anti-establishment.
4. Later Florey got together with Paul Fildes in an experimental study of the use of curare to relieve the intractable
muscular spasms which occur in fully developed infection with tetanus or lockjaw.
5. When a patient is admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit, the clinical team should avoid the temptation to start
specific treatments immediately.
6. Therefore after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved a big
reduction in sugar intake.
7. Modern houses have so many labour-saving things that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate
exercise by doing chores, cooking, and looking after a family.
8. Simply making the effort to reclaim this wasted stuff for fertilizer would have a positive effect on greenhouse
releases.
9. It is difficult to imagine exactly what is meant by saying that such a classification is natural as any collection of
things could be classified in this way.
10. Unfortunately, since there are so many possible explanations, the correct one is most difficult to find out.

II.TRUE or FALSE
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is not.
11. Academic writing is unlike any other form of writing, such as, journalism or creative writing.
12. Developing good academic writing skills has many advantages beyond obtaining higher grades.
13. Academic writing is anchored to reliable academic sources.
14. Academic writing improves a student’s logical and objective reasoning.
15. Proper tone, technique and style are being developed among students in critical thinking.
16. Good communication skill is the aftermath of enhanced academic writing.
17. Questioning the author’s claims and assumptions is a part of critical reading.
18. The wider the knowledge, the wider the opportunity of scanning the problem’s dimensions in critical thinking.
19. Thesis writing is synonymous to academic writing.
20. In doing an academic writing, knowing your genre first is the start of everything.

III.IDENTIFICATION. Identify the word based on the given meaning.

21. It is a writing process that starts with a question, problematizing concept, evaluating an opinion, and ends in
answering the question posed, clarifying the problem and arguing for a stand.
22. It involves scrutinizing any information that you read or hear.
23. It is one way of interacting with the writer of the text by highlighting, underlining or writing marginal notes asking
questions or comments on the ideas of the writer.
24. It is the most challenging part in critical reading.
25. It is a process where reader becomes fully engaged in a dialogue with the text by identifying and listing down the
main points of the writer.
26. It is making the relationship in the text clear to the reader how the various parts of the text are related.
27. It means that the main emphasis should be on the information that you want to give and the arguments you want to
make.
28. It means giving the facts and figures accurately.
29. It usually takes place after research and evaluation, according to a specific purpose and plan.
30. It flows easily from one section to the next in a logical fashion.
31. It is necessary to make decisions about your stance on a particular subject, or the strength of the claims you are
making.
32. It is demonstrating an understanding of any source texts used
33. It means avoiding colloquial words and expressions.
34. It is characterized as having lexical and grammatical density.
35. It is a technique used to obtain the essential part of an original source.

IV.ENUMERATION. Supply what are asked.

A. 36-45 (10) Summarization Techniques

KEY TO CORRECTION
 Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Laguna
Siniloan Integrated National High School
Siniloan, Laguna

I. ACADEMIC STYLE IV. ENUMERATION

1. a lot 36. 3-2-1
2. a bit 37. Inside-Outside Circle
3. a lot 38. Jigsaw
4. got together 39. One-Word Summary
5. start 40.Think-Pair-Share
6. big 41. Summary Ball
7. things 42. Somebody-Wanted-But-So
8. stuff 43. GIST Strategy
9. things 44. Summary Star
10.find out 45. Graphic Organizers

II. TRUE or FALSE

11. True
12. True
13. True
14. True
15. False
16. True
17. True
18. True
19. False
20. True

III. IDENTIFICATION
21. Academic Writing
22. Critical Reading
23. Annotate the text/Annotation
24. Evaluate the text/Evaluation
25. Outline the text/Outlining
26. Explicitness
27. Objectivity
28. Precision
29. Planning
30. Organization
31. Hedging
32. Responsibility
33. Formality
34. Complexity
35. Summarizing