MS.

AMELYN ANINAO
ENGLSIH FOR ACADEMIC
PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

11 STEM 6
FRIDAY 2:20-3:30

ONLINE CLASS
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC
PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
M R S . A M E LY N A N I N A O - C A B A L L E R O
 OBJECTIVES:

1. Define Academic Text . 

2. Differentiate Non Academic Text
and Academic Text.
3. Understand the common structures
of Academic Text. 
 EAPP MEANING

English for Academic and Professional

Purposes is one of the contextualized
subjects of the senior high school
curriculum that focuses on critical
reading, reasoning, writing, and
research skills.
 STRUCTURE OF
ACADEMIC TEXT
TEXT

The original words of something

written, printed, or spoken, in
contrast to a summary or
paraphrase. 
1.NON-ACADEMIC TEXT
2.ACADEMIC TEXT
 NON - ACADEMIC TEXT 

• may be considered that writing which is personal,

emotional, impressionistic, or subjective in nature.
• such writing is often found in personal journal
entries, readers response writing, memoirs or ay kind
of autobiographical writings, letters, emails and text
messages. It uses informal language. 
• poems, skits, letters, compositions about your new
year's resolution , journal entries
 ACADEMIC TEXT 

• is defined as critical, objective,

specialized text written by experts or
professionals in a given field
using “formal language” are more like the
heavy main course, more often, you need
to be a critical thinker before you can
fully understand their meanings.
 EXAMPLES ACADEMIC TEXT
• ARTICLE- Published in scholarly journals, this type of academic
text offers results of research and development that can either impact
the academic community or provide relevance to nation-building.
• Conference Paper- These are papers presented in scholastic
conferences, and may be revised as articles for possible publication
in scholarly journals.
• Reviews- These provide evaluation or reviews of works published in
scholarly journals.
• Theses/ Dissertations-  A book length summarization of the doctoral
candidates research. These are personal researches written by a
candidate for a college or university degree. Full concentration and
comprehension are required for you to understand the key ideas,
information, theme or arguments of the text. 
 TEXT STRUCTURE 

Structure is an important feature of academic writing .

- “A well- structured text enables the reader to follow
the   argument and navigate the text.”
These are the common structures of ACADEMIC TEXT :
THE THREE- PART ESSAY STRUCTURE is consist of: 
• INTRODUCTION
• BODY 
• CONCLUSION 
 THE INTRODUCTION

- It's purpose is to clearly tell the reader the

topic, purpose and structure of the paper. It
might be between 10% - 20% of the length
of the whole paper and has three main
parts: 
1. The most general information.
2. The core introduction.
3. The most specific information.
 THE BODY

- it develops the question.... 

WHAT IS THE TOPIC ABOUT? 
•  it may elaborate directly in the topic sentence by
giving definitions, classifications, explanations,
contrasts, examples and evidence.
- considered as “THE HEART OF THE ESSAY”
- the LARGEST PART OF ESSAY .
- it expounds the specific ideas for the readers to have a
better understanding of the topic. 
 THE CONCLUSION
- is closely related to introduction and as often described   “MIRROR
IMAGE OF INTRODUCTION” 
- that only means if the introduction begins with general information and
ends with specific information, the conclusion moves the opposite
direction. 
- begins by briefly summarizing the main scope or structure of the
paper. 
- confirms the topic that was given in the introduction. 
- ends with a more general statement about how the topic relates to its
contexts. 
- we can also find here the importance of the topic, implications for
future research or a recommendation about theory or practice.
REMEMBER: THE INTRODUCTION AND THE CONCLUSION SHOULD BE SHORTER THAN THE BODY OF THE TEXT. 
FOR SHORTER ESSAYS, ONE OR TWO PARAGRAPHS FOR EACH OF THE SECTIONS CAN BE APPROPRIATE. 
FOR LONGER TEXTS OR THESES, THEY MAY BE SEVERAL PAGES LONG.
 IMRAD STRUCTURE:

INTRODUCTION
METHODS
RESULTS and 
DISCUSSION
 IMRAD STRUCTURE:

THE INTRODUCTION- usually depicts the background

of the topic and the central focus o the study . 

THE METHODOLOGY- lets your readers know your data

collection methods, research instruments employed,
sample size and so on. 

THE RESULT and DISCUSSION- states the brief

summary of the key findings or the result of your study. 
KEEP IN MIND THAT ACADEMIC TEXT IS
TYPICALLY CONSIDERED AS A FORMAL
MODE OF WRITING INTENDED FOR AN
EDUCATED AUDIENCE. 

IT IS USUALLY WRITTEN IN A THIRD PERSON

OR OBJECTIVE VOICE AND IT DEPENDS
HEAVILY ON RESEARCH FACTUAL
EXPERIMENT ACTION AND EVIDENCE AND
OPINIONS OF OTHER EDUCATED
SCHOLARS AND RESEARCHERS RATHER
THAN ON OPINIONS OF THE AUTHORS.
 ACTIVITY:
Directions: In a paragraph, write your own insight of what you
understood about the Structure of Academic Text. Word count
must be in 200-300 words. Use a clean sheet of yellow paper for
this task. This will be submitted on Tuesday after our Face to face
class.
• RUBRICS:
Content – 50%
Originality – 30%
Proper usage of terms – 15%
Cleanliness of the paper -   5%
Total 100%