Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Conference condenses the main points of a source Intended The audience belongs to meant for mass
Paper academic text Audience a specific field consumption; no specific
audience
Thesis / written by scholars/and or experts in a
Dissertation particular field; contains latest research; peer- Language Used The language used is The language used may be
reviewed formal and follows a informal/casual as it may
specific set of contain slang terms, as the
condenses the main points of a source vocabulary items, given readers do not necessarily
Summary
academic text and includes additional that the audience belong to a specific field
explanation and opinion about the source text belongs to a specific
field
B. Internal structures
Language of Academic Texts
→ the way the actual content is
developed through organizational
1. Achieving Formality
patterns of development → should not appear casual or
conversational.
→ avoid the use of colloquial,
Internal Text Patterns Graphic Organizers idiomatic, slang, or journalistic
and Signal Words in terms when writing academic
Text Structures texts.