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Students!

Welcome to our English Class!

Looking Back to
Your Lesson
Directions: Read each sentence below. Write F if
the statement is fact and O if it is opinion.

1. The most
beautiful object
in the sky is the
Moon.
Directions: Read each sentence below. Write F if
the statement is fact and O if it is opinion.

2. The moon is
about 240,000
miles from our
planet.
Directions: Read each sentence below. Write F if
the statement is fact and O if it is opinion.

3. Plants
would make
the Moon a
prettier place.
Directions: Read each sentence below. Write F if
the statement is fact and O if it is opinion.

4. Astronauts
first walked on
the Moon in
1969.
Directions: Read each sentence below. Write F if
the statement is fact and O if it is opinion.
5. Neil
Armstrong was
the bravest of
all the
astronauts.
 LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
distinguish the
differentiate literary features of
writing from academic and
academic writing; literary writing; and

write a simple
paragraph
choosing between
academic and
literary writing.
pretest
The illustration below shows the result of a survey on
the favorite beach activities of grade 7 students. Study
the graph and formulate three factual statements based
on what the picture depicts.
MODULE 1:
ACADEMIC VS
LITERARY WRITING
ACADEMIC VS. LITERARY WRITING
Academic Writing
- Rigid, procedural,
purposed purely to convey Literary/Creative Writing
knowledge, data and - Inspired, artistic and
information entertains with word pictures,
- It is orderly, organized concepts and deep meaning
- It is enjoyable to read.
and follows a formula. - It touches us while
teaching us.
ACADEMIC VS. LITERARY WRITING

LITERARY ACADEMIC
ASPECT WRITING WRITING

Tone Reflective and Serious and a bit

personal impersonal
Style Symbolic and Formal and
imaginative authoritative
 ACADEMIC VS. LITERARY WRITING
LITERARY ACADEMIC
ASPECT WRITING WRITING

Uses specialized
Choice of Simple but may be
language of
Words figurative
disciplines
Organization of Flows freely and Follows a pattern
Ideas spontaneously of presenting ideas
ACADEMIC VS. LITERARY WRITING
LITERARY ACADEMIC
ASPECT WRITING WRITING

To inform, to
To show/tell unfolding
Purpose explain, to
of details/events
argue/assert
Intended Varies, depending on
Audience
Discipline-specific
complexity of text
 Essays of Comparison
-It compares two objects (people, objects, places, ideas, events, etc.) so that
your readers better understand better the similarities and/or differences
between them.
Essays of Definition
-It describes exactly the limits or nature of a term.
-It starts with a sentence summarizing the meaning of a term, much the way a
dictionary does.

Essays of Argumentation
-It is a literary composition in which reasons or arguments are presented in a
logical way.
-Topics of this essay are serious, specific, timely, and debatable.
Problem/Solution Essays
-It is a literary composition in which you analyze a problem and present
one or
more solutions.

Cause and Effect Essay

-It analyzes the cause(s) and/or the effect(s) of a situation.
-The opening paragraph presents a clear backdrop on which the rest of the
essay is developed.
-Details supporting the first paragraph are accurate facts, figures, and
direct references.
-Cause and effect relationship is effectively addressed in the body of the
essay.
-A meaningful or insightful ending closes the essay.
ACTIVITIES
 TASK 1. Classify the following the reading
materials under the correct heading.
BOOK
ACADEMIC ACADEMIC WRITING
JOURNAL
REPORT
ARTICLE

RESEARCH
POEM
PAPER
LITERARY WRITING
NOVEL
TASK 2. Identify whether the following
excerpts are ACADEMIC or LITERARY
writing.
1. Although photosynthesis is performed differently by different
species, the process always begins with energy from light is
absorbed by proteins called reaction centers that contain green
chlorophyll pigments. In plants, these proteins are held inside
organelles called chloroplasts, which are most abundant in leaf
cells, while in bacteria they are embedded in the plasma
membrane.

ACADEMIC
TASK 2. Identify whether the following
excerpts are ACADEMIC or LITERARY
writing.
2. It was dark and stormy night. In her attic
bedroom Anne Murray wrapped in an old
patchwork quilt sat on the foot of her bed
and watches the trees tossing in the frenzied
lashing of the wind.

LITERARY
TASK 2. Identify whether the following
excerpts are ACADEMIC or LITERARY
writing.
3. Manila’s history begins around 65,000 BC the time the Callao
man first settled in the Philippines, predating the arrival of the
Negritos and the Malayo- Polynesian. The nearby Angono
Petroglyphs are then dated to be around 3,000 BC and the
earliest recorded history of Manila, the capital of the
Philippines, dates back to the year 900 AD as recorded in the
Laguna Copperplate Inscription.

ACADEMIC
TASK 2. Identify whether the following
excerpts are ACADEMIC or LITERARY
writing.
4. When I saw my sister, Delia, beating my dog with a stick, I felt hate
heave like a caged, angry beast in my chest. Out in the sun, the hair of my
sister glinted like metal and, in her brown dress, she looked like a sheathed
dagger. Biryuk hugged the earth and screamed but I could not bound
forward nor cry out to my sister. She had a weak heart and she must not be
surprised. So I held myself, my throat swelled, and I felt hate rear and
plunge in its cage of ribs.

LITERARY
TASK 2. Identify whether the following
excerpts are ACADEMIC or LITERARY
writing.
5. An excess of sedatives leads to the fatal
overdoses. Stimulant and hallucinogenic
drugs on the other hand lead to psychotic
behavior and to the loss of the sense of
reality.

ACADEMIC
POST TEST
 Directions: Read carefully and identify what kind of
academic text is shown.

a. Definition
1.
b. Comparison

c. Cause and Effect

Directions: Read carefully and identify what kind of
academic text is shown
a. Cause and Effect

b. Problem-Solution

c. Argumentation
Directions: Read carefully and
identify what kind of academic text
is shown
a. Definition

b. Problem Solution

c. Argumentation