Academic Text and Structure What are some academic disciplines?

The different track and strands are part in academic

1. What have you written so far?
2. Have you experience writing about your summer
vacation? Or your Calubian Fiesta Experience?
3. Have you experience writing your title for your research/
thesis?
4. Or have you assigned to do a book review? Or a reaction
paper? Or you are asking to write poems, skits, or letters?
disciplines like ABM- Business, HUMSS- Social Studies,
Humanities, TVL- Natural and Applied Sciences. You need to
familiar on them because there are words or vocabulary
which are only suited for specific discipline. Example;
The word “VIRUS”, it has different meaning to the ICT, EIM-
TVL students and it has also different meaning to STEM or
Science group or even in Agricrop/ Cookery.

What are the differences of the various outputs that you
have done?
Poems, skits, letters compositions about your Christmas and
summer vacations are examples of non- academic texts.
Non- academic texts may be considered that writing which is
personal, emotional, impressionistic, or objective in nature. It
can be more informal in tone, and may even rely more on
emotional appeal or opinions of the author.
Therefore, anyone can write a non-academic text where giving
of citations is optional and has no rigid structure. Newspaper
articles, e-mail messages, text messages, personal journal
entries/ journal writing, memoirs, autobiographical writing, e-
mails, text messages and letters are some examples of non-
academic text. Some features of Non-Academic Texts are less
formal (may idioms, slangs, contractions), casual language,
use any point of view, opinion-based, free of rigid structures
and on general topics and the targeted audience are in general.
On the other hand, book review, reaction paper and thesis
are examples of academic texts
Examples of academic text
1. Literary Analysis- examines, evaluates, and makes
an argument about a literary works. It goes beyond mere
summarization. It requires careful close reading of one or
multiple text and often focusses on a specific characteristics,
theme or motif.
2. Research Paper- uses outside information to support
a thesis or make an argument. These are written in all
disciplines and may be evaluative, analytical, or critical in
nature. Common research sources (e.g., historical records),
secondary sources (e.g., peer- reviewed scholarly articles. It
involves synthesizing this external information with your own
idea.
3. Dissertation- is a document submitted at the
conclusion of a Ph.D. Program. It is a book- length
summarization of the doctoral candidate’s research.
4. Other examples are Books and book reports,
translations, conference paper, academic journal, abstract
and explication, essays, theses, case studies.

Academic Text is defined as critical, objective, specialized

texts written by experts or professionals in a given field using
formal language. Academic texts are well-focused, concise,
clear, accurate, and well-structured. They are based on
factual information and evidence, free from repetition,
exaggeration, rhetorical questions and contractions and are
always in the third person point of view. Generally, academic
texts debate or provide answers to a specific question in a
field where academic audience are main target of the text.
The main purpose of academic texts is to enhance the
reader’s understanding of a specific field.

This mean that academic text is based on facts with solid

basis. Therefore, it is generally quite formal, objective
(impersonal) and technical. It is formal by avoiding casual or
conversational language such as informal vocabulary or
contractions. Examples is “don’t” = “do not”. It is impersonal
and objective by avoiding direct reference to people or
feeling and it is based on facts and not on opinions. And it is
technical by using vocabulary specific to the discipline. To be
a good academic writer, you need to learn the specific styles
and structures for your discipline.