ENGLISH for the

GLOBALIZED
CLASSROOM Series
ENGLISH for Academic and
Professional Purposes
Improve the text below by rewriting it
into a more objective, impersonal version.
I believe that incidence of drug overdose has indeed become
prevalent nowadays. When people are faced with difficult
problems, I think that they can no longer bear the problem and
that is why they get into drugs. That’s why if you are
psychologist, you should treat your patients in a way that helps
them to understand their problems and ways to deal with them.
Yeah I know it can be very difficult but hey, that’s what you
specialized in right?
 EXPLICITNESS
Academic writing demands the use of signposts that allow
readers to trace the relationships in the parts of a study.
If you intend to show a change in your line of argument,
make it clear by using however.

Example:
It is apparent that the government hopes to provide
assistance to the poor. However, giving dole outs to the “poorest
of the poor” does not work in the long term.
The following phrases may be useful in
making ideas explicit:
1. This is due to the …
A number of MERALCO consumers trooped to the City Hall
to claim a PHP 500 cash incentive. This is due to the Supreme
Court ruling that overcharges must be returned to the end users
whose electric consumption for the April-May period was below
100kw/hr.

2. This resulted in …
With the Supreme Court ordering MERALCO to return
overcharges to the end users, government offices have been tapped
to operate as claim centers. This resulted in a number of
MERALCO consumers trooping to the City Hall to claim the PHP
500.00 cash incentive.
When two ideas seem the same, express
each one clearly.

The study showed that eighty percent of the 200 participants

involved in the study were dissatisfied with the operations of
MERALCO. Similarly. The data revealed that majority of the
participants were not aware of the charges imposed on them by
MERALCO.
If you intend to give extra information in your
sentence, make it clear by writing “ In addition … “

MERALCO has been operating as a business conglomerate

involving foreign stakeholders and independent power producers
or IPP. In addition, MERALCO owns major IPPs operating in the
region .
If you are giving examples, do so
explicitly by writing “ For example …”

The MERALCO issue has led to disputes between opposition

and administration senators. For example, those who have been
labeled as against the president considered the issue as the
administration’s way of avoiding the NBN-ZTE scandal.