English for Academic and Professional Purposes Quarter 1 Module 1 Answer Sheet

Name _________________________________ Section ___________ Date Passed _____________ Score _______

LESSON 1
What I What’s In: What’s
Know Write only one observation for each selection. More
(write the
1. First, A Poem Must Be Magical Importance of Education sequence)
2.
3.
4.
5.

What’s New
1.What are your primary observations with regard to the structure of the two selections?

2.Why are these selections written in different structures?

3.Based on your analysis and understanding of the two selections, which of the two is an academic text?
What made you say so?

What I Have Learned

Academic texts differ in structure from literary texts primarily because:

Assessment
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

LESSON 2
What I What’s New:
Know Answer briefly.
1. 1.What kind of language is used in academic writing?

2.
2.Why is it important for you to know about the language used in academic texts?
3.

4.
3.How can the language used in academic texts help you in understanding the writer’s stand on a
5. particular topic?

What’s More. UNDERLINE the 7 words or expressions in Paragraph 1 that are more appropriate for informal
writing and CIRCLE the 3 instances of subjective wording in Paragraph 2.
 These results are really quite good. The model fits very well with the data points presented in table 1.
But the method used to obtain the best values wasn’t efficient as it involves putting lots of values into an
excel spreadsheet over and over to try to get the lowest R 2 value.

These results are what as we expected. The model fits very well with the data points as indicated in
table 1 above. However, the method used to obtain the best values was frustrating as it involved spending
long hours entering values into an excel spreadsheet to obtain the lowest R 2 value.

What I Have Learned: (Skip the question given in the module and do this instead)
Encapsulate your learning from this module by writing what you remember about the items in the organizer.

Characteristics/words I can associate with VERSUS Characteristics/words I can associate with

LITERARY WRITING: ACADEMIC WRITING:

In a ONE SENTENCE:
What are the content and style of
writing in ACADEMIC TEXTS?

What does it mean for academic

writing to be FORMAL?

What does it mean to be IMPERSONAL

in academic writing?

What does it mean to be OBJECTIVE?

Some hedging expressions:

Answer Assessment only for your practice, without having to write your answers here.

What I Can Do. Look for a scholarly/academic article or text on mental health or other topics available to
you. Either photocopy it, print it, or write at least 3 paragraphs of it on bond paper whichever is practical.
Do not copy more than one page especially if the article is quite long.

On that copy, use a highlighter or circle 5 to 10 hedging expressions. Attach that copy to this answer sheet
upon submission.

Criteria for rating:

18 to 20 points: Correct choice of academic text with 5 to 10 hedging expressions that have been
correctly identified following the instructions.
15 to 17 points: Correct choice of academic text with some words incorrectly identified as hedging
expressions.
0 to 15 points: Wrong choice of article

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