EAPP READING RECORD ALTHEA CASSEY B. SAGARIO 11- ABM3
In Unit 1, what I learned about the Structure of Academic Texts is how to identify the structure of paragraphs, essays, and research papers. Also, there are 3 parts of the paragraph the topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding and/or transitional sentence, and the different patterns as well the illustration, definition, clarification, comparison and contrast, and process. Furthermore, there are also 3 types of essays the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion, as well as I learned about the best way to identify the main idea in a three-part-essay the INRad stands for Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion, with a Conclusion, this usually used for academic texts and research paper it's intended for discussing the research topic at hand to explain the topic and it's intended purpose.
In Unit 2 the lesson we talk about is all about the Thesis statement and Outlining Academic Texts. What I understood in this lesson is that the Thesis Statement is you will usually write an introductory paragraph first in most academic papers. Thereafter, is to state your point of view on the topic, and usually done in one sentence in this one sentence is called the “Thesis Sentence”, and the goal and flow of your statements in the rest of your paper are to dictate to your main idea. Furthermore, there are 6 questions to make a Thesis Statement expressed appropriately, first, Am I answering the question? second, Have I taken a position that can possibly be disputed by others? third, Is my thesis statement specific enough? fourth, Does my thesis statement pass the “So what” test? fifth, Does the rest of my essay specifically and concretely support my thesis statement?, these particular questions can help you to build a correct Thesis Statement.
Outlining Academic Texts is one of the last steps of the prewriting phase is establishing an outline. It assists the writers to classify and organize the main idea of the topic, paragraphs to make understanding, and assure that the paragraph is fully developed. Eventually, helps the writer to not get stuck while he/she is writing an essay is an outline acts as a blueprint or a map. Besides, there are two types of outlines: a topic outline and a sentence outline. A Topic Outline only phrases or main ideas are required, also utilizes wording that is parallel to one another. A heading or subheading should not divide into one part only; if there is a concept under “A,” they must be a “B,” if there is “1,” there must be a “2.” In Sentence Outline it's utilized phrases, sentence outline makes use of sentences unlike the topic outline, headings, and subheadings must be in sentence form and lesser need to have parallelism but it cannot be divided into one part only; the same concept or divisions per heading should still be followed.
Unit 3 lesson is Writing a Summary and Techniques in Summarizing Texts. Summarizing a text is clarifying its essential concepts in a paragraph or two, summary has two goals: simulate the key ideas and points of the text and express these concepts and ideas with detailed and specific language. When writing a summary u need to change the world without changing the meaning and there are techniques to prepare for writing a summary the previewing, skimming, and scanning. To distinguish which part to include in the summary, the following are; your purpose for summarizing the text, and your view on what is essential in the text. In Techniques in Summarizing Texts what I learned is, summarizing a text means establishing a coherent compressed paragraph about a distinct topic or concept. There are two aims in summarizing texts: to reproduce the overarching ideas of a text to specify the general concepts and to express the overarching ideas of a text using detailed language. Lastly, I also understood the 9 Steps in Summarizing Texts: first, once you read a text you can now identify and comprise the title and author, second, include the author's thesis statement in the first two sentences, third, write one or two sentences per main ideas before summarizing the entirety. Write one or two sentences per main concept or suggestion in a text, fourth, recall to omit the details that are not significant; there is no need to go into the minor and supporting details of the text, fifth, avert writing additional opinions about the text, sixth, avoid plagiarism of the author’s work. Comprise quotations if you are rapidly quoting the writer.
In Unit 4 the lesson we discuss is about What is Paraphrasing, and Techniques in Paraphrasing Texts. What I have learned is that paraphrasing is a restatement of a text, passage, or work articulating the meaning in another aspect, a good paraphrase shows how well a writer understood the reading materials. Moreover, there are two factors of a good paraphrase: first, the paraphrase relays the information, from the source in-text in your own words, and the paraphrase oversees the readers to the source of the information. As well as, the two guidelines on when to paraphrase, the first is to use a paraphrase with short texts with one or two sentences or a paragraph with five sentences, the other one is when you want to underestimate direct quotation or rewrite the author’s word utilizing your own, without changing the meaning of the source text use a paraphrase. In paraphrasing by Changing Word, the way is to change the words in the statement while keeping the original thought of the text, furthermore, Changing a Part of Speech usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs can be written into various types of speech. The techniques in paraphrasing texts is to specify which words can be changed and the form they could be changed into, whether it is a noun into a verb, adjective into an adverb, etc, rewrite the sentence or passage modifying to the change in part of speech, check if the original and paraphrased sentences are related in meaning.
In Unit 5 Citing of information Lesson 1: Different Citation Style and Lesson 2: Writing a Bibliography. What I learned in lesson 1 is a citation is a way to give credit to the authors, scientists, researchers, and more. Citation conveniently locates particular sources and helps avoid plagiarism as well, furthermore, the citation includes the author’s name, date of publication, location of the publication, company, journal title, and DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Besides, there is a citation style, a citation style dictates what information is necessary to include in a citation, how that should be organized, what punctuations are used, and more. There are 3 different styles of citation, the APA(American Physiological Association) is used in education, psychology, and social sciences, MLA(Modern Language Association) is normally used in humanities, and Chicago/Turabian style is often used in business, history, and fine arts. Lesson 2 is all about Bibliography, list all of the sources you used for your research and additional background reading, it's included also in the bibliography if you borrowed work as an inspiration or as a purpose for your arguments, thesis, evidence, and the like, even if you didn't actively relate to them in your paper. Furthermore, a Bibliography in APA citation style has a particular formatting guide for your bibliography or references list. In Bibliography in MLA the reference list is pertained to as the works cited page, the title “Works Cited” is also included, capitalized, and centered at the outset of the page. In Bibliography in Chicago/Turabian citation style, a bibliography is usually used, meaning that all of the works you used in your research are included.
