ACADEMIC WRITING VS. PROFESSIONAL WRITING

 ACADEMIC WRITING  VS.  PROFESSIONAL WRITING

ACADEMIC

• - writing done to fulfill a requirement of a college or university
• - given in an academic or school setting

Examples:

• Books and book reports  
• Essays
• Research paper
• Conference paper
• Academic journal
• Dissertation and thesis
• Abstract
• Explication

Characteristics of Academic Texts

•  Factual and formal in tone
• Language is precise and discipline-specific
• objective point of view
• uses analytical/critical approach
• lists references and uses citations

PROFESSIONAL

• - Style of written communication used in the workplace environment  that allows professionals to make informed decisions

Examples:

• Business letters  
• Resumes
• Memorandum
• Cover letters

Characteristics of Professional Texts

• Formal yet personal in tone
• May use the first person point of view

Steps in Reading Academic Texts

• Determine the type of text and the purpose of reading
• Skim and scan titles, subtitles and labels
•  Use annotations 
• Organize information using graphic organizers
• Reflect on what you read.

Reading Strategies

• SQ3R Method ( Survey, Question, Read,
• Recite, Review)
• KWL Chart ( What I Know, What I Want to Learn, What I Have Learned)

Where can we find reliable sources of academic texts?

• Use GoogleScholar (https://scholar.google.com.ph/ )  to search for academic texts

Activity 1.1 ( Pairwork Task)Choose one academic text sample and do the ff.:

• What is the main idea of the text?
•  Which part of the text did you locate the main idea?
• What evidence/s support/s the main idea?
•  Which part of the text did you find these evidences?

"Learning is a choice"