Factor 5

ACCURACY

The book, English of the New Generation (World Literature), provided by the

Sunshine Interlinks Publishing house, Incorporated should maintain accuracy in the

whole textbook as if an incorrect information would be placed in the book, students

would be able to acquire wrong knowledge which is not suitable for the competencies

created by the Department of Education (DepEd). This includes grammatical,

mathematical, or technical problems as well as the errors in the writing conventions

(e.g. spelling, capitalization, sentence construction) which would decrease the

effectiveness of the book since accuracy is the most important element in a book as it

drives the informations a reader should get.

Grammatical accuracy

Grammar, particularly in a textbook giving the proper use of it, should be kept

accurate because a simple mistake in grammar or any conventions used relating to

grammar would be stuck to the innocent minds of the youth. Any errors in the

learnings the students would acquire can be stored to their schema as it contributes to

nothing.

The text book contains inaccuracy in grammar as well as in the conventions used

that can lead the learners to wrong ideas rather than the right ones. One of the

example of it can be seen on page 2, number 1 on pretest, you could see that the

sentence may not have any errors but for the evaluators of this study find it a weak

sentence because the sentence was divided by the commas and commas are provided

for ideas of the same grammatical weight. Thus, the ideas in the sentence do not have

equal grammatical weight, making it a poor construction of sentence. Hence,

paraphrasing the sentence should be made. Also, on page 30, the instruction of the

post-test, the words “Greeks and Greek art” seems like nonparallel making it faulty.

Another was on the same page, the second sentence to the first paragraph of the

essay, “Culture is [the] beauty of the soul”, there you would find faulty parallelism

because the ideas inside the clause was not consistent as some of them were in

singular while some were in plural in form.

Incorrection to the usage of punctuation marks also occurred. One of the

examples can be find on page 3, on the second to the last sentence of the paragraph,

you can see it , “Through Greek’s drama the people are instructed and inspired.” A

comma should be put between the words “drama”and “the” because “Through

Greek’s drama” acted as the sentence modifier of the main sentence. Also, the use of

period should be kept as if on page 52, number 2 on Pre-test, a period should be

observed after the sentence.

Writing of numbers also find it incorrect on the part of the evaluators as the

numbers 11 above should should be written in figures while numbers 10 below should

be not. Examples of it was on page 4, second sentence to the second paragraph to the

text Antigone, the number 143 should be written in figures and not in words. Also, on

page 5, the last sentence to the third paragraph of the passage The Republic, the

number 23 is in words and it should be in figures. On page 29 of the last paragraph on

the Interface part, there also occur inaccuracy where the number 15 should also be in

figures and not in words. Also, on page 83, on the content part, numbers 30, 12, and

100 should all be in figures.

Titles on texts also requires accuracy. Titles should all be italicized to show a bit

emphasis. The word The Republic on the first paragraph on the last sentence of page

5, the title there was mentioned but it was emphasized through a quotation which is
very different as if the title mentioned on the previous page--first sentence of the

second paragraph of the text on page 4--the title Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) was

italicized but the titles mentioned was not. So, it only shows inaccuracy on the

convention used for writing a title.

There are also times where the text book do not use quotation marks even if it

needed to. On the text The Death of Socrates, there you can see that there are no

quotation marks to separate quote from descriptions.

Another is that some of the constructions of the sentence seems like to be

incomplete in thought. The second sentence on the bullet Apollo, there you could see

the sentence “At night, it went down under the earth and in the morning was ready to

start again”. The clause after the word morning seems like to be an another idea that

an idea should be put to connect it. Likewise, on page 44, number 2 on Pre-test, the

sentence seems also poor in construction of the sentence.

For the evaluators, contraction should be avoided in a formal writing. Thus, the

text book contains it despite of the idea that it is a formal type of book because it is an

academic book. Hence, contraction only confuses the students more about how to use

particular words especially were and we’re, they’re and there, you’re and your, and

etc. So, the evaluators do not recommend any contractions used in the textbook.

Perhaps it is widely used in the whole Unit I.

Technical accuracy

Accuracy on technicalities should also be kept as if these are the information to

be retained to the students. Perhaps, it contributes to the manifestation of information

of the students.

Perhaps the only problematic, which