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The document discusses different academic text types used in writing assignments like essays, reports, and case studies. It explains that these text types can be combined to form larger genres or parts of genres. The document also provides examples of common text types like introductions, literature reviews, and conclusions; and outlines for writing essays and abstracts with sections like the title, introduction, body, and conclusion.

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EAPP - LAS (Week 2)

The document discusses different academic text types used in writing assignments like essays, reports, and case studies. It explains that these text types can be combined to form larger genres or parts of genres. The document also provides examples of common text types like introductions, literature reviews, and conclusions; and outlines for writing essays and abstracts with sections like the title, introduction, body, and conclusion.

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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET WEEK 2

Subject: English for Academic and Professional Purposes (Grade 11)

Name:_____________________________ Date__________
Section:___________________________ Score_________

Learning Content : Reading Academic Texts

Learning Outcomes: 1. determines the structure of specific academic text types

References : http://www.uefap.com/writing/genre/genrefram.htm

Illustration :
Students are asked to write many different kinds of texts. Depending on their subject, these could
be essays, laboratory reports, case-studies, book reviews, reflective diaries, posters, research
proposals, and so on and are normally referred to as genres. These different genres, though, can
be constructed from a small range of different text types.

If, for example, you are asked to write an essay to answer the following question:

“Discuss possible solutions to the problem of international credit control”.

You could answer it in the following way:

1. Define credit control, say what it is and give an example;


2. Explain why international credit control is a problem in business today, and support your
explanation by evidence from your reading;
3. Describe some possible solutions to the problem of credit control in an international
context. Again support your suggestions with evidence from your reading;
4. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of the possible solutions;
5. Decide which solution you would prefer and give reasons.

So in order to answer the question you need to be able to write texts to do the following:

 Define
 Give an example
 Explain why
 Support your explanation with evidence
 Describe a solution
 Describe advantages and disadvantages
 Choose
 Explain why

Bruce (2008) calls these various texts cognitive genres,

Here, you will pull together these different functional text types to show how the larger genres
(or part genres) you are expected to write can be constructed from these shorter functional texts.

The following are the different academic text types:

 Essays
 Reports
 Case Studies
 Research proposals
 Book reviews
 Brief research reports
 Literature reviews
 Reflective writing
 Introductions
 Research methods
 Research results
 Research discussions
 Writing conclusions
 Research abstracts
 Research Dissertations & Theses

________________________________________________________________________

1. Thesis-Support Essay

The essay most commonly assigned in college writing is the thesis-support essay, which
addresses a central question or issue and offers a supporting thesis.

 Sometimes you explain or defend your thesis with reasons and evidence gained from
your personal experience.
 Often, you are expected to include new thinking and evidence gained from your reading
or other kinds of research.
 Generally, you will be assigned, or will need to settle on, a specific method or form,
almost always including an introduction, body and conclusion.

Informal Essay

In the humanities or the arts (and sometimes in math and science), you might be asked to
write an informal essay, one more exploratory and reflective, developing not 'top down,'
by supporting a thesis with reasons and examples, but rather 'bottom up,' by starting with
experiences and finding some storyline or trail of explanation.

1. Preliminaries Title page

Introduction
2. Main text Main body
Conclusion

3. End matter References

2. Abstract

The abstract is the first section of the report. It usually comes after the title and before the
introduction. In some subject areas, this section may be titled "summary". The abstract provides
an overview of the study based on information from the other sections of the report. The reader
can read the abstract to obtain enough information about the study to decide if they want to read
the complete report. Because it contains elements from the whole report, it is usually written last.

Ordering Your Information

Abstracts from almost all fields of study are written in a very similar way. The types of
information included and their order are very conventional. The box that follows shows the
typical information format of an abstract (Weissberg & Buker, 1990, p. 186):

Introduction

Introduce the study by describing the context

Explain why the subject is important


↓
Purpose

Describe the purpose of the study

↓
Methods

Report how the study was undertaken

↓
Results

Report the results that were found.

↓
Evaluation

Briefly evaluate the results

↓
Conclusion

Conclude briefly

Explain what is important and why


Exercises: (Put your answer at the back)

1. What are the different academic text types?


2. What is the difference between an essay and abstract?
3. Draw the outline for essay and abstract writing

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