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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
DIVISION OF ORIENTAL MINDORO
Content/Topic Reading strategies for a better understanding of academic texts

Competency The learner differentiates language used in academic texts from various
discipline.
Name Score: ___ / 15
(Last Name, First Name, MI):
Grade and Section: Date:
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ACTIVITY 1.1-a
ACADEMIC WRITING
Directions: Read the text carefully; then, write significant thoughts contained in it.
Academic writing is a process that starts with posing question, problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion,
and ends in answering the question or questions posed, clarifying the problem, and/or arguing for a stand. Just like other
kinds of writing, academic writing has a specific purpose, which is to inform, to argue a specific point, and to persuade. It
also addresses a specific audience; the audience is your teacher (for the most part), your peers who will read and evaluate
your work, and the academic community that may also read your work. The assumption is that your audience is composed of
people who are knowledgeable on the subject that you are writing about; thus you have to demonstrate a thorough
understanding of your subject at hand. This makes academic writing different from a personal narrative or a creative essay,
or a legal document, in which the knowledge of the writer is assumed to be greater than that of the readers.
Academic writing is thinking; you cannot just write anything that comes to your mind. You have to abide by the
set of rules and practices in writing. You have to write in a language that is appropriate and formal but not too pretentious.
You also have to consider the knowledge and background of your audience. You have to make sure you can back up your
statement with a strong and valid evidence. Writing academic papers requires deliberate, thorough, and careful thought and
that is why it involves research.
It was mentioned earlier that a formal but not pretentious language is required. It is misconception, however, that
big and difficult words have to be used because ultimately the purpose of writing is to engage the readers. You are not just
expected to inform or to persuade but you are also expected to engage the readers in a conversation by giving them clear
ideas and points to evaluate and question. You have to make sure that your purpose (i.e., to react to an issue or an event, to
convince readers to take your side) is clear and that your language, style, and tone are appropriate to convey your purpose to
your target readers.
discipline.
Gems of Thought
Through my reading, I was benefitted to learn that
___________________________________________
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.
I, therefore, need to
________________________________________________________________
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ACTIVITY 1.1-b
Nominalisation
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES (EAPP) Teacher: MRS. JENIE V. QUINZON
Office Address: Barcenaga, Naujan, Oriental Mindoro Contact #: 09283565352/09662849880
School Contact #: 0919-994-3940 / Email Address: pgcmnhs031515@gmail.com Email Address: quinzonjenie@gmail.com
Directions: Study well the explanation about nominalisation. Then, accomplish the activity
that follows.
Nominalisation is an integral feature of academic writing. It is a function that not only helps you to
create variety in your writing, but also prevents you from repeating the same verb/word over and over again.
It is a useful skill to have in academic writing because it conveys an objective, impersonal tone. It is usually
used together with other features of academic writing such as passive structures, impersonal language and
formal words that come from Latin or Greek. This technique can help to make academic writing more concise
and succinct- to express more meaning in few words. Lastly, it is a noun phrase generated from another word
class, usually a verb. (Other word classes include adjectives and nouns) In other words, the process of
nominalisation turns verbs (actions or events) into nouns (things, concepts or people).
Not nominalised Nominalised
Everyday Formal word (adjective) from Latin that

word means “everything”
“everything the company owns” ……………………….”the company’s total assets”
The agent that does The verb for No verb – the idea of owning or
the action of buying is in the word “assets” or
action
owning or buying “purchase”
“when you buy small
things”……………………………… “the purchase of minor item
Everyday Formal words from Latin that

words mean “small” and “things”
The group throws away some ideas which
………………………………... The discarding of unused brainstorm ideas
people in the brainstorm come up with because may frustrate participants. (9 words)
they decide not to use them. This process may
upset people. (26 words)
Directions: Nominalise the following sentences.

1. The Department of Health made vaccine to combat the spread of virus.
____________________________________________________________________________________________.
2. Local government strategies intensify to stimulate and sustain economic growth.

____________________________________________________________________________________________.
3. Student numbers are increasing in the public schools nowadays as a result of improving educational system.
____________________________________________________________________________________________.

discipline.
ACTIVITY 1.1-c
WRITING STYLE
Directions: Check ( ̷ ) the boxes in the table below to indicate what features are more
common to the three styles.
 Hint- 6 for Literary, 7 for Journalistic, 5 for Academic

Features Literary Journalistic Academic
1 Use of “I” or “We”
2 Use of “You” to mean people in general
3 More passive structures
4 Short forms of verbs (can’t, he’s)
5 Idioms
6 More active structures
7 Nominalization
8 Imprecise terms
9 Impersonal or third person statements
1 Technical terms
0
1 “Cool” language
1
1 Use of questions to get the reader’s attention
2
1 Exaggeration
3
1 Formal words that come from Latin or Greek
4
1 Referring to the reader’s imagined personal
5 experience
1 Simple, everyday words
6

Learning Competency The learner differentiates language used in academic texts from various
discipline.

ACTIVITY 1.1-d
WORD REGISTER
Directions: Read the texts carefully; then, fill out the table based on your evaluation of the
contents.
Text A Text B Text C Text D

1. What
discipline it was
written for?
(field of study)
2. What is the
text about
(subject/focus)
3. Who is the
target reader
(audience)
4. How did the

writer organize
the text (style)
ACTIVITY 1.1-d (Word Register)
Text A
From the Autopsy Surgeon’s Report
Death occurred from the effects of asphyxia, cerebral anemia, and shock. The
victim’s hair was used for the constriction ligature. Local marks of the ligature were readily
discernible: there were some abrasion and a slight ecchymosis in the skin. But I found no
obvious lesion in the blood vessels of the neck.
Cyanosis of the head was very slight and there were no pronounced hemorrhages in
the galea of the scalp. I should judge that very great compression was effected almost
immediately, with compression of the arteries as well as of the vein, and that the superior
laryngeal nerve was traumatized in the effect of throwing the victim into profound shock…
The lungs revealed cyanosis, congestion, over aeration, and sub pleural petechial
haemorrhages…
Text B
Legal Indictment
State of ----
--- Country
TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT
THE GRAND JURORS of the State of --- duly impanelled and sworn, in and for ---
County in the name and by the authority of the said State upon their oath, find and present:
That one John Doe late of --- County, on the 223rd day of January in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Four, with force and arms, in -- County,
aforesaid and within jurisdiction of the Twenty First Judicial District Court of ---, for the ---
County, did unlawfully, feloniously, with malice aforethought kill and slay one Porphyria
Blank by strangulation.
Contrary to the form and the Statutes of the State of ---, in such cases made and
provided and against the peace and dignity of the same.
…………………………………………………..
District Attorney for the 21st
Judicial District of ---
Text C
Local Girl Found Slain by Rejected Lover
Ms. Porphyria Blank, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Blank, of Barton Park, was found
strangled this morning in the cottage owned by John Doe, 25, who was apprehended on the scene of
the crime by officers Bailey and Hodge. Doe was found holding the body in his arms, and appeared
to be in stupor, his only reply to repeated questioning being, “I killed her because I loved her.”
According to the members of the Blank family, Doe had paid attention to Miss Blank for the
last several months, though it was strenuously denied that his regards for Miss Blank was returned.
Miss Blank’s engagement with Mr. Roger Weston was announced last month. Mr. Weston could not
be reached for a statement. Mrs. Blank was prostrated by the news of her daughter’s death.
The slain girl vanished last evening at approximately eleven o’clock from a dinner party
given at her parent’s home in honour of the approaching wedding. The family became alarmed when
it was discovered that she was not in her room, and instituted a search for her about midnight. The
police, who were promptly notified, in the course of their search knocked at Mr. Doe’s cottage, a
building some quarter of a mile from the Blank estate, at five in the morning. Receiving no answer,
they forced the door and discovered Doe sitting with the dead girl in his lap. She had apparently
been strangled, Dr. A. P. Reynolds, Autopsy Surgeon for the county, state that, from the condition of
the body, death must have occurred at about midnight.
Text D
The Sob Sister’s Story
The dead girl, beautiful and peaceful in death, her scarlet lips slightly parted as though
whispering a caress to her lover, her blue eyes gentle and unquestioning as a baby’s, lay in the
murderer’s arms like a child who has been rocked to sleep. Her golden hair falling in profusion about
her shoulder all but concealed the cruel welt of red about her throat. The murderer, clutching is still
burden to him, like a mother holding an infant, appeared dazed. As the police came in, he rose to
meet them, still carrying his precious burden in his arms. The officers had almost to force him to
relinquish her. He could not answer questions- could merely clutch the closer to his breast all that
remained of the girl he loved better than life, and mutter, “ I love her, I love her,” like a man in a
dream. A few hours later when I saw him in the sordid surroundings of the 10th Precinct Station
House, so different from the cozy cottage which had been the abode of a tragic love, he was still dry-
eyed, though his face wore a ghastly pallor. But when tried to question him, I became aware of
terrific strain under which he suffered, and he showed all signs of a man on the verge of hysteria.
When I tried to draw from him the motive for the pitiful tragedy, he could only rely, his pale boyish
face like a mask: “I killed her, but God didn’t say a word, a word.”
At last he managed pitifully to say: “I killed her so that she would be mine alone for always!”
And this is the irony of fate! The very greatness of his love made him strangle her. Separated as they
were wealth, social position, and all that implies, it was only in death that they could be united.
Who are we to pass judgment on such love?

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Content/Topic Reading strategies for a better understanding of academic texts

Not nominalised Nominalised

Everyday Formal word (adjective) from Latin that

“everything the company owns” ……………………….”the company’s total assets”

Everyday Formal words from Latin that

Directions: Nominalise the following sentences.

2. Local government strategies intensify to stimulate and sustain economic growth.

Content/Topic Reading strategies for a better understanding of academic texts

 Hint- 6 for Literary, 7 for Journalistic, 5 for Academic

Content/Topic Reading strategies for a better understanding of academic texts

(Last Name, First Name, MI):

Text A Text B Text C Text D

4. How did the

ACTIVITY 1.1-d (Word Register)

Who are we to pass judgment on such love?

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