This document provides an overview of a course that teaches reading and writing skills, including critical thinking, analyzing texts, and the writing process. It discusses the fundamentals of writing such as the five stages of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing). Key aspects of writing like unity, coherence, organization, and language use in well-written texts are also examined. The document also covers components of academic and professional writing, and how to write effective thesis statements, topic sentences, and supporting details.
This document provides an overview of a course that teaches reading and writing skills, including critical thinking, analyzing texts, and the writing process. It discusses the fundamentals of writing such as the five stages of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing). Key aspects of writing like unity, coherence, organization, and language use in well-written texts are also examined. The document also covers components of academic and professional writing, and how to write effective thesis statements, topic sentences, and supporting details.
This document provides an overview of a course that teaches reading and writing skills, including critical thinking, analyzing texts, and the writing process. It discusses the fundamentals of writing such as the five stages of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing). Key aspects of writing like unity, coherence, organization, and language use in well-written texts are also examined. The document also covers components of academic and professional writing, and how to write effective thesis statements, topic sentences, and supporting details.
This document provides an overview of a course that teaches reading and writing skills, including critical thinking, analyzing texts, and the writing process. It discusses the fundamentals of writing such as the five stages of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing). Key aspects of writing like unity, coherence, organization, and language use in well-written texts are also examined. The document also covers components of academic and professional writing, and how to write effective thesis statements, topic sentences, and supporting details.
Topic sentence 2: Another benefit of jogging is that it maintains mental fitness.
A topic sentence has one subject ( similar to the subject of the thesis statement )
and one detail
Supporting Details
A composition is incomplete without the supporting details. These details are pieces of
information necessary to better understand the main idea. They can be facts, reasons,
testimonies, statistics, and experiments that support the topic sentence. Supporting
details are divided into two levels: major details and minor details. Major details directly
support the topic sentence whereas minor details directly support the major details.
Academic and Professional Writing
Components of Academic and Professional Writing
Academic Writing
Is a type of writing produced by students in an academic setting. Its purpose is to inform
and persuade , not to entertain.
Example :
5 Academic essays , book reviews, literature reviews , research report , project proposal,
position papers, and reaction papers.
Professional Writing
Is any type of written communication done specifically in a professional context; it
is most often applied in business and technical writing.
Involves private businesses , government corporations and offices , and academic
institutions which produce online and offline documents that aim to communicate
information to a particular audience.
1. Context- refers to the situation where professional writing is performed. It
includes the people involved ( i.e, the sender and the receiver ), relationship
between the people involved in the communication, time and place , and some
possible interferences.
2. Message- refers to the content of your document. It includes the main topic
and the details that support it. These details may be in the form of facts,
statistics, testimonies, and observation.
3. Language- refers to the channel used to convey the message. It can either be
visual or textual, formal or informal , verbal and non – verbal.
4. Purpose- Purpose is the reason or motive that you have when communicating.
5. Audience- Is the receiver of the message. It can either be primary ( i.e., the
direct receiver of your document ) secondary ( i.e., the indirect receiver of your
document ).
6. Product- refers to the output that you intend to produce after considering all
the other components.
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