ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL

PURPOSES
FIRST SEMESTER
12 STEM COURAGE | MR. NELSON P. TOLENTINO | S.Y. 2022-2023

DISTINCTION OF EAPP FROM

GEN. ENGLISH
GENERAL ENGLISH

● Basic skills/Foundation
● Grammar
● Structure

EAPP

● Academic
○ School
● Professional
○ Industry
○ Workplace

LANGUAGE

● Formality
● Choice
● Topic
● Audience

IMPORTANCE OF EAPP

● Communication Skills
● Professional Individuals
● Academic Texts

UPSIDES TO LEARN EAPP

● Widely used around the world

● Open up potential networking
opportunities
● Immense career prospects
● Necessary skill in the professional
world
● Allows you to stay relevant
● Widely used in the scientific
domain

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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES
FIRST SEMESTER
12 STEM COURAGE | MR. NELSON P. TOLENTINO | S.Y. 2022-2023

ACADEMIC TEXT VS PERSONAL

NON-ACADEMIC TEXT
EMOTIONAL

ACADEMIC TEXT SUBJECTIVE

● Main course FREE LENGTH

● Text that is specifically written for
use by students or instructors ● How long the author would be
writing
PRECISE
MAIN DISTINGUISHING FACTORS
● Short but doesn’t affect the
content’s essence
● Content and form
SEMI-FORMAL ● Reading approach applied

IMPERSONAL

● Third person POV

OBJECTIVE

● Based on facts
○ Article
○ Conference Paper
○ Blog Article
○ Thesis
○ Reviewers
○ Essays

IMPERSONAL AND OBJECTIVE

Focus could be on the things we are

saying.

NON-ACADEMIC TEXT

● Written for the mass public

● Published quickly
● Can be written by anyone
● Credentials are not required

INFORMAL

● Slangs
● Conversational words

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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES
FIRST SEMESTER
12 STEM COURAGE | MR. NELSON P. TOLENTINO | S.Y. 2022-2023

ACADEMIC TEXT ● Be cautious with the language and

punctuations marks

READING GOALS
APPROACHES

● Better understanding of existing

ideas (analysis). BEFORE
● Giving ideas that support a
particular writing assignment ● Identify the article, objective, and
● Gaining more information purpose
● Identifying gaps in existing ● Attitude towards author and the
sentence text
● Connecting new ideas to existing ● Prior Knowledge
ones ● Target audience
● Prescriptive period

READING GOALS DURING

More on synthesis and evaluation
● Edge noting

STRUCTURE AFTER

● Reflect and react

A. Introduction, Body, Conclusion ● Evaluate
B. IMRaD ● Summarization
a. Introduction
b. Methods
c. Results and
d. Discussion

CONTENT AND STYLE

PROPERTIES

● Organization
● Unity (Connectivity)
● Coherence (Attachment)
● Cohesion
● Mechanics (Punctuations)

RULES

● Must have clarity

● Provide facts and evidences
● Must use precise and accurate
words
● Avoid slang
● Always objective
● List references (citations)

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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES
FIRST SEMESTER
12 STEM COURAGE | MR. NELSON P. TOLENTINO | S.Y. 2022-2023

UNDERSTANDING AND
LOCATING THE THESIS
STATEMENT

THESIS STATEMENT

● Academic text
● Describes the point of a text
● What the text is all about
● Connected with the main idea
● Abstract/Executive summary
○ Research/tech paper

TOPIC SENTENCE

● Generic
● Main idea

PURPOSE STATEMENT

● States the goals or the objective

● Uses signaling words

STRATEGIES IN LOCATING THE

TOPIC SENTENCE

● Read the first sentence of the

paragraph
● Browse to identify what the
sentences state
● Find the concept
● Identify the purpose
● Observe the author’s writing style