Arellano University

Daily Learning Plan in English for Academic Purposes

2nd SEMESTER
S.Y. 2020-2021

Luares: Luares, Danniella Rosemary A.

Gr&Sec: 11-ABM 7

I. TOPIC: STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC TEXT

Core Values: Understanding
II. OBJECTIVES:
a. Define what is Academic Text .
b. Differentiate Non Academic Text and Academic Text.
c. Understand the common structures of Academic Text.

III. REFERENCES: Personal Development

IV. TEACHING PROCEDURE/ STRATEGIES:
A. Daily Routine
a. Prayer
b. Checking of Attendance
c. Classroom Management
B. Motivation
C. Development of the Lesson
a. Activity

Concept note no. 1.

TEXT- The original words of something written, printed, or spoken, in contrast to a summary or
paraphrase.

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.
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.

POEMS, SKITS, LETTERS, COMPOSITIONS ABOUT YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION , JOURNAL
ENTRIES ARE EXAMPLES OF NON ACADEMIC TEXT.

EXAMPLE 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 reasearch.

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 :

1. THE THREE- PART ESSAY STRUCTURE

It 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 questions ....

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 undertanding 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 topic, implications for future research or a recommendation
about thoery or practice.

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

2. IMRaD STRUCTURE
INTRODUCTION
METHODS
RESULTS and
DISCUSSION

THE INTRODUCTION- usually depicts the bacground of the topic and the central focus o the study .

THE METHODOLOGY- lets your readers know your data collectin 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 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
experiement action and evidence and opinions of other educated scholars and researchers rather than on
opinions of the authors.

b. Application/Assessment

Directions: Write “T” if the statement is True and write “F” if the statement is False and replace the underlined
word with the correct word/ answer on the statement.

F 1 . Academic Text may be considered that writing which is personal, emotional, impressionistic, or subjective
in nature.
T 2. POEMS, SKITS, LETTERS, COMPOSITIONS ABOUT YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION , JOURNAL
ENTRIES ARE EXAMPLES OF NON ACADEMIC TEXT.
T 3. Introduction usually depicts the bacground of the topic and the central focus o the study .
F 4. Structure is not important feature of academic writing.
T 5. Academic Text is defined as critical, objective, specialized text written by experts or professionals in a
given field using “formal language”

V. Assignment
FAMILIARIZE YOURSELVES WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF ACADEMIC TEXT.
COLLECT AND CLIP SAMPLE ARTICLE OF ACADEMIC TEXT. ( 3 ARTICLES)
OBSERVE HOW THE TEXT WERE WRITTEN AND HOW IT CONVEY MEANING TO THE READERS .

CRITERIA
CLIPPINGS WITH DESIGN- 40%
EXPLANATION/OBSERVATION- 60%