EAPP

Lesson 1
Are you ready?
Reading Goals
Why do you read?
 Purposes for Reading
Academic Texts:
01 02 03 04
to better to get ideas to gain more to connect
understand that can information new ideas to
an existing support a existing ones
idea particular
writing
assignment
Reading Strategies
1.SQ3R METHOD
SURVEY -skim the target text
QUESTION - develop questions on the types of
information you expect from the text
READ -look for answers to your questions as you
read the text
RECITE -recount the main points of the text
REVIEW -evaluate what you learned to ensure that
you are convinced and satisfied with the information
presented in the text
2. KWL METHOD
What you KNOW
What you WANT TO KNOW
What you LEARNED
ACADEMIC AND
NON-ACADEMIC TEXTS
 Academic Texts
are written by professionals in a given field. They are
edited by the authors' peers and often take years to
publish.

• critical Language Used:

• objective
• specialized • Formal
 Academic Texts
Examples:

abstract annotated bibliography

book report
academic journal article dissertation
conference paper explication
essay textbook
literary criticism
research paper/thesis
 Non-Academic Texts
is a writing that is not intended for an academic audience.
They are written for the mass public.

Language Used:
• Less formal
Non-Academic Texts
Examples:

personal journal entries

memoirs
autobiographical writing
letters
e-mails
text messages
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questions?
EAPP
Lesson 1
DAY 2
Main Idea
Topic Sentence
Thesis Statement
Paragraph
-is a group of related
sentences that develop a main
thought, or idea, about a single
topic
Elements:
01
Topic

02 03
Topic Supporting
Sentence details
Practice:
KFC claims, on its website, that its animal-welfare
advisory council “has been a key factor in formulating
our animal welfare program.” But Dr. Duncan, along with
five other former members of this advisory council, say
otherwise. They all resigned in disgust over the
company’s refusal to take animal welfare seriously. Adele
Douglass, one of those who resigned, said in an SEC
filing reported on by the Chicago Tribune that KFC
“never had any meetings. They never asked any advice,
and then they touted to the press that they had this
animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being
used.”
Main Idea
is the author's message about the topic.

Topic Sentence
is the sentence in which the main idea of the paragraph is
stated.
Practice:
In the United States, circumstances often force people
to live alone. For example, many high school and college
graduates move away from their hometowns and continue
their educations or take jobs. Most schools assign
roommates, but employers usually expect people to take
care of their own living arrangements. Also, married
people might feel they will always be together, but
currently one out of two marriages end in divorce.
Another statistic concerns the death of a spouse.
Estimates are in the next twenty years, eight out of ten
married women will become widows, usually late in life.
Tips to locate Topic
Sentence:
 Locate the most general sentence.

 The topic sentence must make the

rest of the paragraph meaningful.
Practice:
During the visit, Dee takes the pictures, every one of
them, including the one of the houses that she used to live
in and hate. She takes the churn top and dasher, both
whittled out of a tree by one of Mama’s uncles. She tries
to take Grandma’s quilts. Mama and Maggie use these
inherited items every day, not only appreciating their
heritage but living it too. Dee, on the other hand, wants
these items only for decorative use, thus forsaking and
ignoring their real heritage.
Remember!

Topic Sentence (Main Idea)

Details
 Thesis Statement
in academic writing, it is a short statement, usually one
sentence that summarizes the main point or claim of an
academic essay or research paper.

 Characteristics
It is direct.
It is arguable.
It is supportable.
 Thesis Statement
Example:
Increasing the state tax on cigarettes will adversely affect
not only the nicotine addict but his or her family as well.
Location
The thesis statement is located in the introductory
paragraph, almost always at the end of that paragraph.
 Practice: The Crisis of American Masculinity

What has happened to the American male? For a long time, he seemed utterly
confident in his manhood, sure of his masculine role in society, easy and definite in
his sense of sexual identity. The frontiersmen of James Fenimore Cooper, for
example, never had any concern about masculinity; they were men, and it did not
occur to them to think twice about it. Even well into the twentieth century, the heroes
of Dreiser, of Fitzgerald, of Hemingway remain men. But one begins to detect a new
theme emerging in some of these authors, especially in Hemingway: the theme of the
male hero increasingly preoccupied with proving his virility to himself. And by mid-
century, the male role had plainly lost its rugged clarity of outline. Today men are
more and more conscious of maleness not as a fact but as a problem. The ways by
which American men affirm their masculinity are uncertain and obscure. There are
multiplying signs, indeed, that something has gone badly wrong with the American
male's conception of himself.