CHAPTER 8

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 ‘’ YOU CAN MAKE ANYTHING BY
WRITING’’
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― CS. LEWIS
 WHAT IS WRITING?

Let’s dive in and get to know some interesting facts

about genres of academic writing!
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 DID YOU KNOW?
Writing is among the six language skills needed in every
facet of life.
 To student, however, academic writing does many scholarly things
that other writings like personal writing, creative writing, business
writing do not. It has its own sets of rules and practices.
 Its purpose is to arouse students’ emotions, stimulate their senses
and perception and inspire.
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 DID YOU KNOW?
ACCORDING TO SEBRANEK ET. AL HEINMAIN IN DAPAT (2016)
1996)

Academic writing is a style of expression that
researchers used to define the intellectual
boundaries of disciplines and specific areas of
expertise.
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Academic writing, as broadly as any writing
disciplines, fulfills a purpose of education at any
level of academic pursuits.
 GENRES OF WRITING
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 FOUR COMMON
GENRES OF
WRITING
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● Academic writing starts when a student is assigned to gather, organize, and present thoughts and
insights about a course related subject. An essay written by a college or a high school studenteview
article of a case analysis writin by a law student, and a reaction paper made by graduate school
student are examples of academic writing.

● Genre means type or category. In academic writing, a genre is a category defined by the intended
audience, content, purpose and style. Each genre has distinct purposes, structure and expectations.
There are different genres of academic writing. In some books, these include descriptive writing,
expository writing, journals and letters, narrative writing, persuasive writing and poetry writing.
Other cources includes; abstract, book review laboratory report research article and conference
presentation.
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● These writing tasks require the writer to connect something he read with his own experiences or
with other works he read of studied. The purpose is to develop ideas or concepts in depth. These
feature a student’s response of thoughts about a particular issue, composition, artwork, book, film
or experience.
● Reaction and reflection papers are popular genres that require careful, thoughtful, reading,
research and writing. To a freshmen college student who is expected to develop higher order
thinking skills or higher level of academic discourse, this is not simply giving the summary of
various materials or expressing feelings toward them but synthesizing, analyzing and evaluating
those materials.
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 In form or structure, it may not have a thesis or main idea, but usually has some focus more
specific than the whole text.
 It may use paragraphs, topic sentence and/or closing sentence, an introduction and conclusion.
 It is personal, introspective, phiolosophical in nature.
 Personal experiences and/or observations are used with less formal or conversational English.
 In style, it may quote from a text for the purpose for responding to the quote.
 For the point of view, ‘’I’’ is nearly always used unless otherwise specified.
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 REACTION PAPER

• It is also called a response paper.

• It is more focused on the writer’s feelings on a topic.
• It serves as an avenue for the writer to answer questions about their feelings,
agreement or disagreement, and even their evaluation of the topic.
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 REFLECTION PAPER

• It is more focused to express what they have learned about a topic.

• It gives the writer the opportunity to express how an article, lesson, lecture
or experience shapes their understanding.
• It gives way for the learners to apply their beliefs, in connection to what is
being reflected.
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 STEPS IN WRITING A REACTION OR
REFLECTION PAPER
1. Know the purpose of your reaction/reflection paper. Are you doing to evaluate a material based on some principles, theories,
concepts or models? Or are you going to give a personal response?

2. Take down notes as you re-read or review the materials.

3. Identify the main theme of the material.

4. Develop your thesis statament effectively.

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 STEPS IN WRITING A REACTION OR
REFLECTION PAPER
5. Write major points or key impressions.

6. Support each point with evidence or proofs objectively.

7. Chart ideas/things for the easy and logical sequence.

8. Develop the body that provides context for the conclusion.

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 SUMMARY PAPER

● This paper requires the writer to wrap up and simplify a longer text read ( or watched, or heard ). This paper checks
understanding of assigned reading, viewing or listening to engage in leading discussion or presenting to class.

● A summary shrinks a large amount of information into only the essentials. A summary paper condenses a long piece of
writing into a smaller paragraph by extracting only the vital information. A summary use only the writer’s own words. Like
the summary’s purpose in daily conversation, the purpose of an academic summary paper or summary paragraph is to
maintain all essential information from a longer document. Although shorter than the original piece of writing, a summary
should still communicate all the key points and key support. In other words, summary paragraphs should be succinct to the
point.
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 CHARACTERISTICS OF SUMMARY
PAPER
 It encaptulates key elements of target text objectively.

 It rarely quotes from the text.

 It does not introduce author’ opinions about the text.

 Needs not contain all the specific facts and figures in the original document.

 Composed of one or two organized paragraphs from the conext of the text.
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 CHARACTERISTICS OF SUMMARY
PAPER
 Uses edited academic English.
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 STEPS IN WRITING A SUMMARY
● Read the article, one paragraph at a time.

● For each paragraph, underline the main idea sentence(topic sentence). If you can’t underline the book, write that sentence on
your computer or a piece of paper.

● When you finish the article, read all the underlined sentences.

● In your own words, write down one sentence that conveys the main idea. Start the sentence using the name of the author and
title of the article.
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 STEPS IN WRITING A SUMMARY
● Continue writing your summary by writing the other underlined sentences in your own words. Remember that you need to
change both the words of the sentence and the word order.

● Use transition words to link your sentences together. Refer to the list of transition words to help you write your simmary
more effectively and make it more interesting to read.

● Make sure you include the name of the author and article and use ‘’author tags’’ to let the reader know you are talking about
what the author said and not your own ideas.

● Re-read your peace. Does it flow well? Are there too many details? Not enough? Your summary should be as short and
concise.
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THANK YOU
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