Writing Academic Texts and Reading Texts

Critically
Writing Academic Text
CriticalReading
Plagiarism
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 WHAT IS ACADEMIC
TEXT?

It is basically anything that can be used in school or

classroom. It can include schools books, newspapers,
articles, textbooks, and anything that has been
written by someone with experience in the field.
 LANGUAGE USED IN ACADEMIC
TEXTS FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES
 ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
• represents the language demands of school
(academics)includes language used in
textbooks, in classrooms, on tests, and in each
discipline.
 ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
• is used in all academic disciplines to teach
about the content of the discipline, e.g., a
water table is different from a periodic
elements table. It is challenging.
 ACADEMIC STRUCTURE
•established ways of organizing writing
(which can affect how one reads) in a
discipline.
 ACADEMIC WRITING
A process that starts with posing a question,
problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion,
and ends in answering or question posed,
clarifying the problem, and/ or arguing for a stand
 Steps in Writing Academic Text
1. The pre-writing process:
 Brainstorming – ideas that comes to your mind

 Freewriting - to put down into writing

 Clustering – a graphic representation of your ideas

 Focus on one idea -

 Knowing your purpose and Identifying reader/audience - the

goal of all writing
2. Drafting – to create initial composition

3. Revising – to improve the draft

4. Editing – proofread and correcting errors,

feedback is helpful.

5. Publishing – ready to published online.

CRITICAL READING
Involves scrutinizing any information that you
read or heard. It also means not easily believing
information offered to you by a text.
Different ways to help you become a
critical reader:
Annotate what you need
Outline the Text
Summarize the text
Evaluate the text
Annotate what you read

There are no clear and

definite guideline to
annotating a text; you can
create your own style.
 Text Analysis
looking at the parts of
something to detect patterns

Outline the text

identify the main points of the
writer and list them down,
also you have to identify the
ideas that the writer has raised
to support his/her stand.
  Summarize the text
This will test how much you have understood the text and will help
you evaluate it critically. A summary is usually one paragraph long.

  Evaluate the text

The most challenging part in critical reading.
When you evaluate a text, you question the author's purpose and
intentions, as well as his/her assumptions in the claims. You also
check if the arguments are supported by evidence and if the evidence
are valid and are from credible sources.
Plagiarism
This is using somebody else’s work or ideas without proper
acknowledgment or citation and copying the text without paraphrasing it.

Ways to avoid plagiarism

 Paraphrase - It is rendering the ideas in a text using your
own words, materials are usually shorter than the original
text. It is more detailed than a summary.
 Quotation - It must be identical to the original text. ‘’
 TEXT A

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.

Dear Prof. Lanuza:

Congratulations for being chosen as one of the recipients of the ASEAN Educational Program Award. You
are invited to the 5th Annual ASEAN English Teachers’ Conference.
Our sponsors value the important work done by English language teachers and they are willing to support your
professional endeavor by giving financial aid in the conference.
The conference organizers and sponsors want to know more about your work and how the ASEAN English
Teachers’ Conference
will be able to help you. May we ask you to complete the attached questionnaire to help us provide that
information? Also, we would appreciate the opportunity for members of our Sponsorship Profile team to talk
with you about your work and the challenges and opportunities that you have identified in your study. If you
have questions, just send me an email or check this link to the conference website.
Thank you and we look forward to meeting you.

Best regards,
Prof. Hannah Lee
 Republic of the Philippines
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
Judicial Region
Branch, City
EX-PARTE MOTION FOR EXTENSIONTO SUBMIT COMPROMISE AGREEMENT
Defendants, by the undersigned counsel and unto Honorable Court, respectfully state that:
(1) On 5 January 2015, the Honorable Court, in open court, directed the Parties to submit their Compromise Agreement within ten (10) days
therefrom, or on 15 January 2015. Said day being a Sunday, the Parties have until the next working day, 16 January 2015, to submit said
Compromise Agreement.
(2) Defendant Hannah Dy is presently abroad and needs to execute a Special Power of Attorney authorizing her brother and Co-Defendant
Roland Dy to sign the Compromise Agreement on her behalf.
(3) Thus, the Defendants respectfully pray that the Parties be given additional fifteen (15) days from today, or until 30 January 2015, within
which to submit their Compromise Agreement.
(4) This Motion is not intended to delay the instant proceedings but filed solely by reason of the foregoing. Moreover, the filing of the same
will not result in any injustice or prejudice to any of the parties herein
  TEXT A TEXT B
What is the text about? (subject/focus)    

What is the writer’s goal in writing? (purpose)    

Who is the target reader of the text? (audience)    

How much does the writer know of the    

subject? (writer’s knowledge)

How did the writer choose the words and    

organize the sentences? Was the language formal,
informal, or casual?