Eapp Summary of Lessons For Quarter 1

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An academic text is a written language that PROBLEM / SOLUTION

provides information, which contain ideas Identify problems and pose solutions
and concepts that are related to the Is anything being done to try to solve the
particular discipline. problem?
Essay, Research Paper, Report, Project, What can be done to solve the problem?
Article, Thesis, and Dissertation are considered
as academic texts. COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Discuss two ideas, events, or phenomena,
Academic language is the language needed showing how they are different and how they
by students to do the work in schools. are similar
Structure DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION

1. INTRODUCTION Describes a topic by listing characteristics,
2. BODY features, attributes, and examples
3. CONCLUSION What does it look like? How does it work?
What is important to remember about it?
Social language is the set of vocabulary that
allows us to communicate with others in the ________________________
context of regular daily conversations.
Why is Text Structure Important?
Characteristics of Academic Language: 1. Organize information and details they are
learning in their minds while reading.
A. FORMAL 2. Make connections between the details
- It should not sound conversational or casual. being presented in a text
B. OBJECTIVE 3. Summarize the important details shared in a
- based on facts and evidence and are not text
influenced by personal feelings
C. IMPERSONAL Techniques in Summarizing Academic Texts
- instead of writing ‘I will show’, you might
write ‘this report will show’ 1. Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then - the
strategy helps students generalize,
NARRATIVE recognize cause and effect
- Narrates an event/story with characters, relationships, and find main ideas.
setting, conflict, point of view, and plot
2. SAAC Method - “State, Assign, Action,
Questions being asked: Complete.” Each word in the acronym
• Who is the narrative about? refers to a specific element that should
• Where is it set? be included in the summary.
• What is the conflict?
• Who is telling the narrative? 3. 5 W's, 1 H. Who, What, When Where,
• What is happening? Why, and How. These questions make it
easy to identify the main character,
CHRONOLOGICAL, PROCESS OR SEQUENCE important details, and main idea.
Present ideas or events in the order in which
they happen 4. First-Then-Finally. This technique helps
students summarize events in
What items, events, or steps are listed? chronological order.
What sequence of events is being described?
5. Give Me the Gist. This type of
CAUSE AND EFFECT techniques is like giving a friend the gist
Provide explanations or reasons for of a story. In other words, they want a
phenomena summary – not a retelling of every
detail.
What happened?
Why did it happen?
What caused it to happen?
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5. Reader-Response Criticism
THESIS STATEMENT is the controlling idea that - “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a
you will develop in your paper. Usually at the printed page but as a transaction between
end of an introduction. Can be one, two or the physical text and the mind of a reader
three sentence.
6. Media Criticism
Elements of a Thesis Statement - It is the act of closely examining and judging
the media.
Topic. The subject of your paper.
Argument/Claim. If it is an argumentative 7. Marxist Criticism
paper, then this should express your opinion. - It focuses on the economic and political
Evidence. The support for your elements of art, often emphasizing the
argument/claim. ideological content of literature; because
Marxist criticism often argues that all art is
An OUTLINE is a design to follow when writing a political
structure, a discourse, or an article. It arranges
a material in a logical way into main ideas,
supporting ideas, and supporting details.
OPINIONS are your own views of certain issues

or concerns. There are words that you can use
when expressing your opinion. Here are some
phrases that you can use.
You are entitled to your own opinions, but

these opinions must be based on facts so that
you will not be biased.
REACTION PAPER is a form of paper writing in

which the writer expresses his ideas and
opinions about what has been read or seen.
The text is a good reaction paper due to the

following reasons:
1. Author’s Opinions
2. Statistical Data
3. Personal Experience
4. Facts are necessary in supporting opinions
because these will make your opinion
objective and not biased.
Approaches in Literary Criticism

1. Gender Criticism
- “examines how sexual identity influences the
creation and reception of literary works.”
2. Formalist Criticism
- “a unique form of human knowledge that
needs to be examined on its own terms.”
3. Structuralism
- It focused on how human behavior is
determined by social, cultural and
psychological structures
4. Historical Criticism
- “seeks to understand a literary work by
investigating the social, cultural, and
intellectual context that produced it”

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EAPP | SUMMARY OF LESSONS (Quarter 1) Page 1 of 2

An academic text is a written language that PROBLEM / SOLUTION

Structure DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION

OPINIONS are your own views of certain issues

You are entitled to your own opinions, but

REACTION PAPER is a form of paper writing in

The text is a good reaction paper due to the

Approaches in Literary Criticism

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