ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND

PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
What I Need to Know
• This will give you an idea of the skills or competencies you are
expected to learn in the module.
What I Know
• This part includes an activity that aims to check what you already
know about the lesson to take.
What’s In
• This is a brief drill or review to help you link the current lesson with
the previous one.
What’s New
• In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to you in various
ways such as a story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.
What is it
• This section provides a brief discussion of the lesson. This aims to
help you discover and understand new concepts and skills.
What’s more
• This comprises activities for independent practice to solidify your
understanding and skills of the topic. You may check the answers
to the exercises using the Answer Key at the end of the module.
What I have learned
• This includes questions or blank sentence/paragraph to be filled in
to process what you learned from the lesson.
What I Can do
• This section provides an activity which will help you transfer your
new knowledge or skill into real life situations or concerns.
Assessment
• This is a task which aims to evaluate your level of mastery in
achieving the learning competency.
Additional Activities
• In this portion, another activity will be given to you to enrich your
knowledge or skill of the lesson learned. This also tends retention
of learned concepts.
Answer Key
• This contains answers to all activities in the module.
What is EAPP means?
• Stands for English for Academic and Professional
Purposes
• This program helps students develop communication skills
that will prepare them for social and academic
interactions.
• refers to the language and associated practices that
people need in order to undertake study or work in
English medium higher education.
What is Academic Text in EAPP.
• Academic text is defined as critical,
objective, specialized texts written
by experts or professionals in a given
field using formal language. This
means that. academic texts are
based on facts with solid basis.
What are the examples of academic text.
• Examples of academic writing
include book reviews, critique
papers, essays, movie analysis,
reports, research papers, etc.
What is the purpose of academic writing.
• The most common purpose in academic writing
is to explain some idea or research finding and
to persuade readers that your explanation or
theory is the correct one. In doing so, you may
need to describe an object, place, or activity.
Sometimes you might write to narrate set of
events, in the manner of a story.
Non- Academic Texts
• May be considered that writing which is
personal, emotional, impressionistic, or
subjective in nature.
• It can be more informal in tone, and
may even rely more on emotional
appeal or the opinions of the author.
Academic Texts
- It is defined as critical (formal),
objective (impersonal), specialized
texts written by experts or
professionals in a given field using
formal language.
What are some academic
disciplines?
Examples of Academic Text
1. Literary Analysis
2. Research Paper
3. Dissertation (Thesis)
Literary Analysis
- It examines, evaluates, and makes an
argument about a literary work.
- It goes beyond mere summarization
- It requires careful close reading of one
or multiple texts and often focuses on
specific characteristics, theme, or motif.
Research Paper
- It uses outside information to support
a thesis or make an argument.
- Research paper are written in all
disciplines and may be evaluative,
analytical, or critical in nature.
- It involves synthesizing this external
information with your own ideas.
Dissertation (Thesis)
- It is a document submitted at the
conclusion of a Ph.D. program.
- A book-length summarization of the
doctoral candidate’s research.
TEXT STRUCTURE
Structure
- Is an important feature of Academic
writing.
- A well-structured that enables to the
reader to follow the argument and
navigate the text.
Two Common Structures of Academic Texts
1. The Three-part Essay Structure
2. IMRaD Structure
The Three-part Essay Structure
• INTRODUCTION
- It purpose is to clearly tell the reader
the topic, purpose and structure of
the paper.
- It might be between 10% and 20%
of the length of the whole paper.
The Three main part of Introduction
1. The most general information- background
and/or definitions.
2. The core of the introduction- to show the
overall topic, purpose, point of view of the
paper.
3. The most specific information- describing the
scope and structure of your paper.
• Body
- It develops the question.
- It may elaborate directly on the topic
sentence by giving definitions,
classifications, explanations, contrasts,
examples and evidence.
- It consider as the “Heart of the Essay”.
- It is usually the largest part of the essay.
• Conclusion
- Closely related to introduction, and it is
often describe as “Mirror Image” of the
introduction.
- The conclusion begins by briefly
summarizing the main scope or
structure of the paper.
IMRaD Structure
- For writing thesis/dissertation.
The Three Section of the IMRAD
Structure are:
• Introduction
- The introduction usually depicts the
background of the topic and the
central focus of the study.
• Methods (Methodology)
- Let your readers know your data
collection methods, research
instrument employed, sample size
and so on.
• Results and Discussion
- States the brief summary of the key
findings or the results of your study.