WEEK 2- LESSON 1: Identifying Academic-Text Examples of Non-Academic Texts

Structure and Language

● Personal Journals
● E-mails
● Text Messages

The Answers:

Academic-Text vs. Non-Academic Text

Academic text:

● Specifically written for college instructors or

students
● Written by professional in a given field
● Take years to publish
● Language is formal or semi-formal, precise,
impersonal, and objective
● Author’s name is presented
● There is a list of reference used
● Specific field or academic category
● Rigid, objective, and fixed uses jargons

Examples of Academic Text:

● Learner’s Materials, textbooks, encyclopedias

● Essays, blog articles, conference article, reviews

Non-Academic Texts

● Written for mass public and can be written by

anyone
● Published quickly
● No reference lists
● Language is informal, casual, and may contain
slang What is academic text?
● Uses non-technical terms
● Free style ● Product of communication with academic
● Informal purposes
● Author may not be provided ● With a discipline-specific set of practices
● Personal, emotional, impressionistic, or subject ● Academic text uses formal language and is
usage of words written with precision and accuracy.
According to Hyland (2006), Academic writing is
characterized by:

● High Lexical Density - a high proportion of

content words in relation to grammar words
such as prepositions, articles, and pronouns
which make academic writing more tightly
packed with information
● High Norminal Style - actions and events are
presented as nouns rather verbs to package
complex phenomena as a single element of
2. Analytical Paper (IMRDC)
clause
● Introduction
● Impersonal Constructions - avoiding first-person
● Methodology
pronouns by using passive structure as well as
● Results
an expression of feelings.
● Discussion
● Conclusion
How academic text is structured?

● Framing the text: title and reference

● Stercutin the whole text
● Structuring sections of the text
● Structuring paragraphs of the text
● Signposting the structure

For Framing the text: Title and Reference:

1. Title
● Informative
● Concise and simple
● Contains keywords 3. Argumentative Paper
● Study classification ● Thesis statement
● No false marketing ● Background
2. Reference ● Pro-arguments
● Established credibility and reliability ● Counter arguments
● Help in accessing more information ● Conclusion
● Uses APA style

Structuring the whole text

1. Three-part essay structure

● Introduction
● Body
● Conclusion

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 ● Supporting sentences (evidence/supporting
details
● Concluding sentence (sums up the paragraph)

Signposting the structure:

● Subheading
● Transitional words

Stylistic Differences in Writing Across Disciplines:

Structuring sections of the text:

● Working with subheadings

● Dividing into paragraphs

Structuring paragraph of the text:

● Topic sentence (gives the focus)

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WEEK 3- LESSON 2: Thesis Statement and Topic
Sentence

Thesis Statement

As a writer/reader, the Thesis Statement is the one

statement that you need. The thesis statement guides
everyone in fact-finding for writing an academic paper
or helps ease reading through ideas expected from the
paper. With a thesis statement, the focus of the paper is
established. (Plato, Mirador, Dayag, & Chua, 2002)

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Thesis Sentence

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