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Unit One

Preliminaries of Reading and Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes

1. The Academic Writing Style (2T and 1E)


a. Factors of Writing
2. Aspects of Professional and Academic Language (5T and 2E)
a. Formality
b. Objectivity
c. Explicitness
d. Caution
e. Structure

Unit Two

Reading and Writing for Academic and Professional Texts

1. Plagiarism and Effective Note-taking Skills (6E)


Plagiarism and Citations
Plagiarism of Language
a. Word-for-word
b. Patchwork
c. Note-taking Techniques
i. Direct Quotation
ii. Summarizing
iii. Paraphrasing
2. Planning Essays and Presentations (11Tand 1E)
a. Thesis Statement
b. Topic Sentence
c. Qualities of a Thesis Statement
d. Outlining
e. Principles of Outlining
f. Steps in Planning an Essay
g. Subtopics in an Outline
h. Preparing References (APA Format)
i. Parts of an Essay
j. Presenting the essay

Unit Three

Writing the Reaction Paper/Review or Critique

1. The Structure and Language of Critique (1E)


2. Writing the Reaction Paper/ Review/ Critique (5T and 2E)
a. Background Information
b. Brief Summary
c. Summarizing in the Final Section
Unit Four

Writing the Concept Paper

1. Developing Concepts (2E)


a. Definitions
i. Formal sentence
ii. Informal
iii. Extended
b. Dos and Don’ts in Defining
2. Presenting Concepts (3E)
a. Explaining and Examples
b. The Body of the Concept paper
c. Conclusion

Unit Five

Writing the Position Paper

1. Identifying Significant Issues in the Society (8T and 1E)


a. What is a position paper?
b. Argumentative Thesis, Claims and Evidence
c. Parts of a Position Paper
d. Interrogative Statement and the Argumentative Thesis
2. Presenting a Position Paper (E4)
a. Stating the thesis statement
b. The Intro
i. Background Information
ii. Introduction of the Issue
iii. Thesis Statement
c. The Body
i. The Claims
1. The Topic Sentence
a. The Evidence
d. The Conclusion
i. The Summary
ii. Restatement of the Thesis

Unit Six

Writing Technical Report

1. Preparing the Technical Report (11T and 1E)


a. What a Technical Report Is
b. Introduction
i. Definition of Essential Concepts
ii. Research Gap
iii. Methods of Data Collection
iv. Methods of Data Analysis
2. Presenting the Technical Report (8T and 1E)
a. Presentation and Interpretation of Data
b. Presenting Data in Non-Prose Texts
c. Presenting Data through Inferences
d. The Conclusion

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