WELCOME TO

EAPP CLASS!!
English for Academic
and Professional
Purposes
 REVIEW
QUESTIONS
1. What are the
different
forms of
citation?
2. What are
the various
style guides
available in
citing sources?
3. What is the
most
commonly
used style
guide?
 4. Why is it
important to
cite sources
of
information?
1. Who is the
speaker in the
video clip?
 “When you are able to change someone’s
life and when you look back at your life and
say I tried my best to give my best to the
people around me, that’s the REAL
SUCCESS.”
- Muniba Mazari
 What are
the
supporting
details?
SUMMARIZING
 What is Summarizing?
Short restatement of the main
idea of the text
Contains only the main point and
important details of the text
Written in your OWN words
 Tips in summarizing:

Be consistent.
Paraphrase! Revise. 01

Read the
original text
Write your
several times
initial
to understand
summary.
it deeper.
Look for the Identify the
main idea and text 02
supporting structure.
details.
 Use of
Graphic
Organizers
Techniques What is the main idea of the text?

What are the supporting details?

in What are the evidence or example?

Summarizing
Outline
(Traditional/
Modern)
Key Point 1
• Supporting Details
Key Point 2
• Supporting Details
Key Point 3
• Supporting Details
 The English were not the
first Europeans to land their ships
on American soil. The Vikings had
discovered North America in the
11th century. Columbus landed in
the Bahamas in 1492 for Spain,
and the French began expeditions
to the New World in 1524. But the
first English presence in North
America is important because the
thirteen English colonies that
would later be established
eventually became the country
now known as the United States of
America.
What is the main idea of
the text?

What are the supporting

details?

What are the evidence or

example?
 Some people believe
homework is good because it What is the
helps children. These people main idea
of the text?
think that homework teaches
children to be responsible for
their learning. They believe What are the
that extra practice will help supporting
children become smarter. details?
Other people believe that
homework is a waste of time.
Children, they say, should What are the
spend their time away from evidence or
school playing with family and example?
friends.
 Traditional Outline Modern Outline
I. 1.
A. 1.1
B.
1.2
1.
1.2.1
2.
a. 1.2.2
b. 1.2.2.1
Example of outlining:
I. Topic
A. First Key Point
1. Supporting point
2. Supporting point
a. Evidence/Sample
b. Evidence/Sample
B. Second Key Point
1. Supporting point
2. Supporting point
a. Evidence/Sample
b. Evidence/Sample
 Dogs make wonderful pets. They
are fun, happy, playful and loving. People Example of outlining:
sometimes forget, however, that owning a I. Topic
dog is a big responsibility. Owners need to A. First Key Point
feed, care for and clean up after their dog.
They must make sure their pet 1. Supporting point
gets enough exercise. Dogs also need to be 2. Supporting point
taken to the vet regularly to make sure a. Evidence/Sample
they are healthy and to get treatment to b. Evidence/Sample
stop ticks, fleas, and worms from causing
B. Second Key Point
health problems. Owners also have a
responsibility to train their pet so it knows 1. Supporting point
how to behave around people. Dogs are 2. Supporting point
beautiful animals and they deserve a. Evidence/Sample
responsible owners who will look after b. Evidence/Sample
them properly.
What are the reasons and/or importance of
summarizing in academic writing?
• Restating important
details using own • Recognizing the
words to avoid supporting details
plagiarism of the texts

• Identifying the main

ideas of the given
texts • Teaches the
students to
concise their
• Teaches the students thoughts about
to note only the most the texts they
significant information have read
 A good summary:

1st 2nd 3rd

Identifies the Synthesizes Presents the

writer of the the writer’s information
original text. key ideas. neutrally.
AN EXAMPLE OF SUMMARIZING

ORIGINAL TEXT
 America has changed dramatically during
recent years. Not only has the number of
graduates in traditional engineering disciplines
such as mechanical, civil, electrical, chemical,
and aeronautical engineering declined, but in
most of the premier American universities
engineering curricula now concentrate on and
encourage largely the study of engineering
science.
As a result, there are declining offerings in
engineering subjects dealing with
infrastructure, the environment, and related
issues, and greater concentration on high
technology subjects, largely supporting
increasingly complex scientific developments.
While the latter is important, it should not be at
the expense of more traditional engineering.
Rapidly developing economies such as China
and India, as well as other industrial countries
in Europe and Asia, continue to encourage and
advance the teaching of engineering. Both
China and India, respectively, graduate six and
eight times as many traditional engineers as
does the United States.
Other industrial countries at a minimum
maintain their output, while America suffers an
increasingly serious decline in the number of
engineering graduates and a lack of well-
educated engineers. (169 words)
(Source: Excerpted from Frankel, E.G. (2008,
May/June) Change in education: The cost of
sacrificing fundamentals. MIT Faculty
Newsletter, XX, 5, 13.)
 One-paragraph Summary
In a 2008 Faculty Newsletter article, “Change in
Education: The cost of sacrificing fundamentals,” MIT
Professor Emeritus Ernst G. Frankel expresses his
concerns regarding the current state of American
engineering education. He notes that the number of
students focusing on traditional areas of engineering has
decreased while the number interested in the high-
technology end of the field has increased. Frankel points
out that other industrial nations produce far more
traditionally-trained engineers than we do, and believes
we have fallen seriously behind. (81 words)
 Basic Pro Premium

2.Is it
1.What is necessary to 3.What are
some other
the know which applications of
significance particular summarizing
of technique you in the fields of
summarizing? will use in academic
summarizing? writing??
Exercise
 Exercise: Watch the
movie “Hidden Figures”
directed by Theodore
Melfi, and write a
synopsis or a summary
about it.
 Criteria 10 points 5 points 3 points
The main ideas The main ideas are The main ideas
CLARITY are discussed stated but not are
clearly. clear. questionable
The words are Some words are A lot of words
ORIGINALITY written in a copied from the are from the
unique form. original text. original text.
All the
Some of the The information
information
ACCURACY written is
information is written is
questionable. irrelevant.
precise.

The text shows Some of the texts The text shows

ORGANIZATION coherence. are disordered. confusion.
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