This document discusses the key factors that shape academic writing: topic, role, purpose, and audience. It explains that writers must consider what their text is about, their role in writing it, the purpose for writing, and who their intended audience is. The document also includes guiding questions for reflection on improving a set of directions and sharing an experience of receiving a missent message.

1. LESSON 1
The Academic Writing Style

2. GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. What were your difficulties.
2. Do you think the recipients of your
intructions will safety get to their
destination? What difficuties do you think
they will encounter and how can these be
addresed?
3. If you can improve your set of directions,
what revisions can you make?

3. Writing is a form of communication that shaped
by the following factors:
1. Topic
2. Role
3. Purpose
4. Audience
- What the text about? What details am I
imparting to the readers.
- Who am I as a writer? Do I write as a
sibling? A student? A son/daughter? A
customer?
– Why am I writing this in the first
place?
- Who I reading this piece? What
knowledge does he/she need to
understand in my writing?

4. THINK and SHARE
Think of an SMS personal message in
you social networking account or e-mail that
was missent to you. Reflect on the details that
made you realize that you were not the
intended recipient of the message. Share your
reflection in the class.