English for Academic and Professional Purposes - week 1 Structures of Academic Text

Understanding academic structures is crucial for effective communication in academic and professional contexts.

Introduce specific language features commonly found in academic and professional texts, such as:
• Tone and register
• Sentence structure and syntax
• Vocabulary and terminology
• Cohesion and coherence
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Explain each concept and provide examples for better comprehension.

Engage students in a brief discussion to ensure their understanding of the concepts.

Conduct an interactive and engaging activity, such as a language feature scavenger hunt.

Distribute different texts (articles, advertisements, speeches, etc.) to each student or group.

Ask students to find and highlight specific language features within a given time frame.

Provide feedback and discuss the language features identified by the students, emphasizing their impact on the text.
Engage students in a discussion about how understanding and evaluating language features can be useful in real-life situations, such as:
• Interpreting and critically analyzing news articles or advertisements
• Writing professional emails or reports
• Understanding complex academic texts.

Summarize the key concepts and skills covered in the lesson.

Facilitate a class discussion on the significance of evaluating language features in academic and professional contexts.
Conduct a brief assessment to gauge students' understanding of the lesson's objectives.

Ask students to identify and explain the language features in a provided text.
Assign a writing task that requires students to apply their knowledge of language features in a specific context (e.g., writing a persuasive essay or analyzing a research paper).

Offer extra resources, such as online articles or videos, for students to further explore the topic on their own.

1. TEXT STRUCTURES - Determining how a material is organized.

2. Organization of text understanding main topic & supporting points aid in writing effective paragraphs and essays

3. Group Activity (10 min) 1. Read the excerpt given to your group and identify the following: a. Author’s purpose b. Audience 2. Explain how the text was organized.

4. On April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon in England. He attended a local grammar school in town. At the age of 18 he married Ann Hathaway. Several years later he travelled to London. By the time he was 28 he had established his reputation by acting and writing plays. Other than these facts, little is known of Shakespear’s early life.

5. 1. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Often used in fiction, biography, and autobiography May include flashbacks that describe previous events and/ or experiences

6. 2. SPATIAL ORDER Used for descriptive writing May include left-to-right, top-to-bottom, front-to-back, or inner-to-outer descriptions

7. 3. LOGICAL ORDER Often used in persuasive speeches and essays May use patterns of logic in a number of ways: a. Inductive reasoning- specific or particular facts lead to a general conclusion.

8. b. Deductive reasoning- a general truth leads to the of specific or particular cases. a. Cause and effect- explanation by telling why or how something happened. Describes how two or more events are related or connected.

9. 4. ANALYSIS/CLASSIFICATION Used for explaining , defining, and directing May use the following patterns: a. Definition- give the meaning of an entity.

10. b. Static description- gives the reader a detailed observation. Crispness is achieved through sensory language . c. Process description- it gives the readers a clear description of how something is done.

11. d. Comparison and contrast - it draws the reader’s attention to similarities and differences.

12. Activity Read each paragraph carefully and determine the text structure.

13. Assignment What is a thesis statement? What are the features of a thesis statement?