Academic Writing for Grade 12 EAPP TSHS

Grade 12 EAPP

1. English for Academic and Professional Purposes

2. Objectives Define academic writing and distinguish it from other kinds of writing Identify the purpose , audience, language and style of academic writing

3. Questions before we proceed… 1. Was the last activity an easy assignment?

4. Questions… 2. Why is it easy? Why is it difficult?

5. Academic Writing

6. Academic Writing - The process of breaking down ideas and using deductive reasoning, formal voice and third person point-of-view.

7. Academic Writing - a scholarly act of presenting or concepts about specific topic.

8. Academic Writing - is generally quite FORMAL, OBJECTIVE (IMPERSONAL) and TECHNICAL.

9. Example: ‘Alone one is never lonely.’ says the poet and author May Sarton in praise of living alone. Most people, however, are terrified of being alone. They are used to living with others – children with parents, roommates with roommates, friends with friends, husbands with wives.

10. Academic Writing - a process that starts with a posing a questions, problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion and ends in answering the questions or questions posed, identifying the problem and or arguing a stand.

11. Examples: 1. Literary analysis – examines, evaluates and makes an argument about a literary work

12. Examples: 2. Research paper – utilizes outside information to support a thesis or make an argument.

13. Examples: 3. Dissertation – a document submitted at the conclusion of PhD program.

14. AREAS IN ACADEMIC WRITING:

15. Content - clarity of the purpose and statement, relevance of the supporting points to the statement, knowledge on the subject matter

16. Structure - coherence and logical sequences of the ideas

17. Language - word choice, sentence constructions

18. Mechanics - Grammar, punctuations, capitalizations, formatting documentation.

19. Essay Assignment T he Future Gender Equality on Page 9 of your Module 1. WHAT I CAN DO.

20. Assignment: P repare for the Debate. Girls versus Boys. Rules will be sent via the GC.