English for Academic and Professional Purposes

Academic Year 2021-2022

Second Semester
Worksheet #1

Nature of Academic Texts Worksheet

Instructions:
1. Work with a partner for this worksheet.
2. Choose 1 from the 4 texts found on the first chapter of your EAPP book and complete the
worksheet below. (Answer briefly)
3. After completing the worksheet, save this as FAMILYNAME1-FAMILYNAME2-
SECTION-WORKSHEET1 and save it in PDF format.
4. Submit it on our Silid. One submission per pair.

Title of the text chosen:

1. What is the text about? (subject/ The text is about teachers searching for ways
focus) on how to teach students better with
their English. recurring simple English
especially those who are in college.
2. What is the writer’s goal in writing the To address the situation to the audience to
text? (purpose) spread awareness since an alarming rate of
students who have been studying English
have yet to use it very well. I think the writer
is asking for help asking ways on how to fix
recurring problems with the student’s
learnings.
3. Who is the target reader of the text? Those who have a hard time studying English.
(audience) Because the target audience are not the
teachers, they are well aware of the fact that
many students including college students have
problems fixing their English.
4. How much does the writer know about Just a small amount, It seems that the writer is
the subject? (writer’s knowledge) stereotyping both the students and the
teachers, I’ve seen a lot of teachers who get
frustrated a lot by their English but don’t
seem to help them in a way that will fix their
English, the teachers often discipline the
students who commit errors by giving them
more English task rather than helping them
and students in the text are portrayed horribly.
5. How did the writer choose the words It was obviously informal; the writer was
and organize the sentences? Was the expressing anger towards the students. And it
language formal, informal, or casual? was not that informative.
6. Based on your answers above, do you
think that the text you have chosen is
an example of academic text? Why or
why not?
The text focuses on describing and explaining
how students have terrible English by giving
examples. But I would not say that it is an
example of academic text, the writer was not
very critical with their thinking and not
expressing how alarming the amount of
students committing errors, It is not very
informative, It was like a twitter post rather
than an article.