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The document provides information on academic writing and critical reading. It defines academic text as text written for college students and instructors or assigned in courses due to its usefulness. The purpose of academic writing is to inform, argue a point, or persuade rather than express emotions. Critical reading means not easily believing information but weighing and considering it. It requires abilities like posing questions, analyzing problems from different dimensions, finding and interpreting relevant data, imagining alternatives, and constructing arguments. The document recommends annotating, outlining, summarizing, and evaluating texts as ways to become a critical reader.

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The document provides information on academic writing and critical reading. It defines academic text as text written for college students and instructors or assigned in courses due to its usefulness. The purpose of academic writing is to inform, argue a point, or persuade rather than express emotions. Critical reading means not easily believing information but weighing and considering it. It requires abilities like posing questions, analyzing problems from different dimensions, finding and interpreting relevant data, imagining alternatives, and constructing arguments. The document recommends annotating, outlining, summarizing, and evaluating texts as ways to become a critical reader.

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Academic Text means a text that is specifically written

for use by college instructors or students, or it is a text


your instructor has assigned because of its usefulness
in your college course.

Purpose of Academic Writing


•Just like other kinds of writing, academic writing has
its specific purpose, which is to inform, to argue a
specific point, and to persuade

~ It is neither to express your emotions nor writing to


empress your readers. It answers questions, has a
specific purpose which is to inform, to argue a specific
point or to persuade.

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Recognize Assumption, Evaluate Arguments, Draw


Conclusion.

Critical Reading- means not easily believing information


offered to you by a text.

“Read not to contradict and confute: nor to believe and


take for granted: nor to fin talk and discourse: but to
weigh and consider” -- Francis Bacon 1908 stated in
THE ESSAYS

Requirements in Critical Thinking:


- The ability to pose problematic questions
-The ability to analyze a problem in all its dimensions- to
define its key terms, determine its causes, understand
its history, appreciate its human dimension and its
connection to one’s own personal experience and
appreciate what makes it problematic or complex.
-The ability to find, father, amd interpret data, facts and
other information relevant to the problem.
The ability to imagine alternative solutions to the
problem and see the different ways in which the
question might be answered and different perpectives
for viewing it,
-The ability to analyze competing answers to construct
arguments and against alternatives and to choose the
best solution.
- the ability to write an effective argument justifying
your choice while ackowledging the counter-argument.

WAYS TO HELP YOU BECOME A CRITICAL READER.

1. Annotate what you read


2. Outline the text.
3. Summarize the text.
4. Evaluate the text.

2 Purpose of WRITING

1. Know your purpose


2. Identify your readers

STEPS TO CHOOSE A TOPIC:


1. Freewriting- not contrained by the rules.
2. Brainstorming- This technique aims to generate as
many topics as you can.
3. Clustering- Provides a graphic representation of
your ides, allowing you to visualize the connections of
your ideas.

Ways to avoid plagiarism:

RESOURCES:
1. Internet
2. Books
3. Magazine
4. Journals
5. Research paper

RA 8293 - Intellectual property code of the Philippines.


- Protects intellectual works.

PLAGIARISM.
- Deliberately copying of somebody else’s work and
claiming that work is his/her.
- Using somebody else’s work without
acknowledgement or citation.
- Copying the text without paraphrasing it.

QUOTING.
- The word should be exactly identical.

PARAPHRASING-
Rendering the essential ideas of a text.

A THESIS STATEMENT- the claim or stand that you will


develop in your paper.

Organizing your idea means finding the connections of


one point to another and establishing the link form one
idea to another..

OUTLINING is an effective way of ensuing the logical


flow of your ideas

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