The document provides questions to consider when critiquing an academic text, including whether the language is formal and precise, whether the author remains objective by emphasizing information over personal beliefs, and whether evidence and details are provided to support claims. The questions guide analysis of features such as language usage, objectivity, accuracy of data, and use of signaling words and hedging language.

1. Criticking an
Academic Text
Features of
Academic Language

2. Answer all the
questions to critic the
article…present your
answers in the form
of a talk show.

3. Is the text you read
easy to understand?
Why?

4. Is the language use
formal? Explain
your answer.

5. Is the author precise
or acurate in using
information dates
and figures?

6. Is the author objective?
Did the author
emphasize the
information more than
his /her own ideas or
beliefs?

7. Did the writer use signal
words to emphasize or
explicitly show the
relationships of
statements in the text?
What are the signal
words he/she used?

8. Did the writer use
exact or acurate
words to convey the
message to the
readers? Name some
of these words.

9. Did the writer use cautious
language, or hedging
words in the text? Name
the hedging words the
writer mentioned in the
text.

10. Did the writer able to
provide evidence and
justification for
his/her claims. Did he/
she mention details to
support the main idea?

11. “Cast all your burdens to the
Lord…He cares for you”.
Myrna G. Galvez
JFMTVHS Zambales