Professional Documents
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4.0 - Academic and Professional Writing - Service
4.0 - Academic and Professional Writing - Service
1. Context
2. Message
3. Language
4. Purpose
Purpose is the reason or motive that you have
when communicating. It also helps you determine the
reactions you want to elicit from the target audience.
5. Audience
6. Product
Product refers to the output that you intend to
produce after considering all the other components.
The following are some examples of outputs
produced through academic and professional writing.
Examples:
According to… …states that…
As explained by… …emphasizes
Based on the findings of… …asserts that…
…proposed that… …concluded that…
…also mentioned…
Quoting
• Using the exact words from the original text
• Distance yourself from the original in order to cue the
readers that the words are not yours.
• Maintain the integrity of the original text
Example:
According to Miss Melanie Marquez in an interview
when asked about her being a vegetarian, “I don’t eat
meat, I am not a carnival.”
In-text citation
When you present information in the body of your
paper, you briefly identify its source.
Jones (1998) argued that “there are a variety of causes for student
dissatisfaction with prevailing citation practices” (paras. 4–5).
Paraphrased
Most animals can leap in the
air except for the elephant.
Practice Text
Original Text Paraphrased
The student requested The professor denied
that the professor the student’s request
excuses her absence, for an excused
but the professor absence.
refused.
Paraphrasing a Paragraph
Original Text Paraphrased
Of the more than 1000 bicycling The use of a helmet is
deaths each year, three-fourths the key to reducing bicycling
are caused by head injuries. Half of fatalities, which are due to
those killed are school-age head injuries 75% of the
children. One study concluded that
time. By cushioning the
head upon impact, a helmet
wearing a bike helmet can reduce
can reduce accidental injury
the risk of head injury by 85
by as much as 85%, saving
percent. In an accident, a bike the lives of hundreds of
helmet absorbs the shock and victims annually, half of
cushions the head. whom are school children
(Hythe, 1990, p.348).
-From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," by Kurt
Hythe, Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.
What is
summarizing?
Summarizing
• Stating the essential ideas together in fewer
words
• Should not include opinions, and judgements
Practice Text
Original Text Summarized
Mr. Leibovitz and writer “Fortunate Sons” tells
Matthew Miller joined forces the story of Chinese
to tell the story of the students exchange students who
in their book, “Fortunate
came to the US to learn
Sons.” The book says China
sent one hundred twenty boys
how to help develop
to America to learn about China (Leibovitz and
developments that could help Miller, 1999, p. 39).
modernize their country.”
Source: American Documents the Country’s First Exchange
Students from China, Voice of America, 199, pg. 3,
learningenglish.voanews.com
Paraphrasing
vs.
Summarizing
Paraphrasing Summarizing
Similar length to the original Shorter than the original
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Challenge Yourself
Activity A: Presenting Textual
Evidence through Referencing and
Quoting (APA Style)
Direct Quoting
Direct Quoting
“Three out of five patients showed few
symptoms after two weeks of treatment” (Plette
& Polly, 2013, p. 83).
2.
Direct Quoting
“The use of the term 'understanding' (or
'comprehension') is varied, depending on
institutional contexts, although the dominant
psychological approach emphasizes the mental facet
of understanding” (Marisol, 2008, p. 214).
3.
Direct Quoting
“Mass refugee flows and competition for water
and food could plunge the world into nuclear
conflict” (Vidal, 2005, paras. 4-5).
Challenge Yourself
Activity B: Paraphrasing and
Summarizing with APA citation