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Whether you're a student struggling to keep up with the amount of reading required for your studies or a professional looking to quickly grasp important information, these techniques can help you become a more effective reader and summarizer of academic texts.
technique that the writers use in developing ideas that are logically arranged.
transitional devices -help you determine the difference of one pattern from another.
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Summarizing a Variety of Academic Texts.pptxCendz Flores
Whether you're a student struggling to keep up with the amount of reading required for your studies or a professional looking to quickly grasp important information, these techniques can help you become a more effective reader and summarizer of academic texts.
technique that the writers use in developing ideas that are logically arranged.
transitional devices -help you determine the difference of one pattern from another.
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"Explore the diversity of language used in academic writing across various disciplines! This presentation takes a closer look at the language used in texts from fields such as science, humanities, social sciences, and more. See how each discipline has its own unique linguistic features and conventions that shape the way knowledge is communicated.
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Essays hold a special place in the realm of written expression. They serve as a platform for delving into a specific subject, exploring its nuances, and conveying insights. In the context of English class, essays serve as a tool to showcase your comprehension and analysis of studied texts. These compositions involve identifying, dissecting, and forming conclusions about the components that shape the text, ultimately influencing the reader's response.
The scope of essays is expansive, covering a wide range of texts such as novels, short stories, movies, documentaries, and graphic novels. Each essay provides an opportunity to engage deeply with the material and share your unique perspective.
When crafting analytical essays, the primary objective is to construct an argument that responds to a specific question or presents an interpretation of the studied text. This process entails more than just summarizing the content; it involves a meticulous examination of the text's features and an astute analysis of their impact on the reader's perception.
Let's embark on a journey through the key steps that comprise the essay-writing process, along with some insightful tips to guide you in planning, drafting, and producing essays during your secondary school years.
Introduction: Setting the Stage
The introduction of an essay serves as its foundation, capturing the reader's attention and laying out the trajectory of your argument. It is your opportunity to establish the context, introduce the text you will be discussing, and provide a clear roadmap for what lies ahead. A well-crafted introduction should contain:
A brief overview of the text or topic you will be analyzing.
The central thesis or argument that your essay will revolve around.
A hint at the key points you will address in the body of the essay.
Remember, an engaging introduction sets the tone for your essay and entices the reader to delve further into your analysis.
Body: In-Depth Exploration
The body of your essay serves as the core where your analysis unfolds. Each paragraph within the body focuses on a distinct aspect of your argument, supporting it with evidence from the text. To structure your body effectively:
Devote each paragraph to a single point or theme.
Begin with a topic sentence that introduces the focus of the paragraph.
Provide evidence from the text to support your point, including direct quotes or paraphrases.
Offer insightful analysis of the evidence, explaining its significance in relation to your argument.
Connect each point back to your thesis, demonstrating how they collectively reinforce your overarching message.
A cohesive and organized body strengthens the coherence of your essay, ensuring that your analysis is structured and logical.
Conclusion: Culmination and Reflection
The conclusion is your opportunity to tie together the threads of your analysis and leave a lasting
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Text Analysis – Current Educational Philosophy Issue
Your Text analysis assignment is an analysis of a current philosophy of education issue. The selected text must have been constructed within the past year. The assignment requires that you make links between your chosen text, concepts, videos, and readings from the course. The purpose of the exercise is to help you to critically examine the way how text inscribe meanings that influence how we conduct education in this country. You may do this paper with a partner.
GUIDELINES
All papers must be typed and should be between 3 to 5 pages long.
Use the handout on Text Analysis while working to make sure all criteria are met. If you work with a partner, only one paper is required. The grade the paper achieves will be assigned to both students.
The format for the paper should be analytic, interpretive, and normative – do not mix up the order of the three perspectives. These perspectives must be clearly delineated in your paper in order to ensure full credit.
It is essential that you remember that this is an analysis and not a report. As such, your goal is to analyze the text not “re-describe” it. Remember! This is not a book report or a “text” description.
Restrict your analysis to a few themes of the text (preferably the main theme), focus on how the argument was constructed and how the text informs education in contemporary society. Utilize course concepts, videos, written texts, quotes, paraphrases, readings, discussion, etc. to help ground your ideas. Failure to do so will result in a weak, one-sided paper.
If you work with a partner, note where you disagree (on what and why). Not everyone shares the same position.
Refer to the "Worksheet on Reading Texts" handout below for explicit questions to guide you in the text analysis.
Worksheet For Reading Text
To really “read” a text, as opposed to just decoding it, requires the reader to construct meaning from the text. To help you in this process, you should attempt to answer at least the following questions for each text? ANALYTIC READING
1. What is the major argument (conclusions) presented in the text?
a. What is the author/speaker trying to convince you?
2. What is the evidence presented to support that claim (Premise)?
3. Is the argument implicit or explicit?
4. Is it an empirical (facts, statistics, etc.), analytical (concepts and definitions) or normative (making a moral claim) argument?
5. What type of reasoning does the author employ (inductive or deductive)?
6. How is the argument presented, i.e. what rhetorical devices are used to make the argument (narrative, metaphors, visual imagery, imagery, ideographs, euphemisms, rhetorical questions, labels, etc.)?
7. Are you able to detect any fallacies in the argument? INTERPRETIVE READING
1. When was the text made?
2. What was going on around that time that might have influenced the writing of this text or the way audiences interpreted it?
3. What might those who r ...
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Start the first paragraph here, which should introduce your reader to the subject you are writing about, as well as your particular position or claim. Do not label it “Introduction.” Instead, simply write your paper’s title as a level 1 heading: bold, centered, with title case. To learn more about what an introduction should include and what to include in a conclusion, please see the following resource: Introductions & Conclusions. You can use this template to help you format your paper. For longer papers, include level headings.
The Writing Process
Spend time planning your paper. A good practice is to brainstorm ideas and decide how to express the main idea or thesis, this is part of entering the scholarly conversation. Once you have a rough idea of what you want to discuss or argue, create an outline or list to help you organize the evidence you plan to present.
Writing the Body Paragraphs
Each paragraph of your assignment should be clear and easy to follow. We have several good resources to help you write a strong paragraph, such as How to Write a Good Paragraph page and the Integrating Research page.
Level 2 Heading (Bold, Flush Left, Title Case)
Level headings can be placed anywhere in your paper as a way to classify or organize your paper into sections. There are five levels; the first three levels are more commonly used in graduate-level assignments, whereas levels four and five may be used in longer papers (e.g., dissertation). Use level 2 headings to break level 1 into categories, level 3 to break up level 2, and so on. Do not move to a lower level of heading if there is only one section. As a general rule, check with your instructor about formatting expectations.
Level 3 Heading (Bold, Flush Left, Italic, Title Case)
Likewise, to show your readers where the paragraph begins when using a level 3 heading would be a great idea.
Level 4 Heading (Bold, Indented, Title Case). In longer papers, you may use a level 4 heading to create even further subsections. In this case, note that the paragraph begins directly after a period on the same line as the level 4 heading. The level 5 headings follow the exact same conventions, only they would also be italicized.
Using Citations Correctly
In addition to being well-written, each paragraph should include an in-text citation to all information summarized, paraphrased, or quoted from outside sources. The Writing Center provides many resources to help you follow correct citation style and gives lessons and examples of how to paraphrase and cite sources. The Introduction to APA 7th Edition page is a good place to start.
Using Tables, Graphs, Images, and Appendices
For some papers and reports, you may choose to add a table, graph, or image
within the body of the draft. Or you may choose to include an appendix at t ...
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2. To glean the information of the text
structure is to organized the
information and details they are
learning in their minds while reading.
This strategy helps student
understand that a text might present a
main idea and details; the cause and
it effects and/or different views of a
topic
3. Common types of text
structure
Spatial or Description
Cause and Effect
Comparison and Contrast
Chronological Order
Problem-solution
4. Spatial or Description
Spatial or description gives the reader a detailed feature
that creates a picture on his/her mind about the topic.
Spatial organization can also be called as descriptive
writing. If you are about to describe how something looks,
you are describing it spatially.
It can also be used in fiction and non-fiction
Even if narration style of writing is usually arranged
chronologically. If the author is describing a setting of a
certain scene, the author is describing it spatially.
5. Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect is one way organizing information in a text. It
explain reasons why something happened. It can be ordered as
cause and effect or vice versa.
CAUSE
Presents the relationship between specific events, ideas or
concepts
EFFECT
it is generally used in expository and persuasive writing modes.
It explains the result of things that happened on it reasons.
This structure is commonly used, most of the time writers
didn’t notice that they use this kind of text structure
6. Comparison and Contrast
Give the similarities and differences
between two or more people, events,
concepts, ideas, and the like.
You should bear in mind that this kind of
structure should discuss both comparing
(similarities) and contrasting
(differences). If you will only discuss
comparing and not contrasting, it cannot
be called as comparing and contrasting
but comparing alone and vice versa.
7. Chronological order
Chronological order explains a text by the time an event
occurs.
Chrono means time and logic means order. the events
occur along a timeline even if the author uses flashbacks,
or flash forwards.
All stories are organized chronologically, therefore,
every story has
A beginning, middle, and an end. Non-fiction stories
organized chronologically usually contain dates while
fiction passages or narratives usually have no dates.
8. Problem-solution
It is a pattern of organization that explains
a problem issue and an attempted solution
in the issue. This type of text is usually
interchanged with caused and effect type
of structure but the only thing that they
should remember is that cause and effect
text structure do not offer a solution. This
mentions a problem and then offers a
solution plus the possible effect of a
solution.
10. What is summarizing?
Summarizing is defined as taking a lot of
information and creating a condensed version that
covers the main points. An example of
summarizing is writing a three or four sentence
description that touches upon the main points of a
long book. Present participle of summarizing.
Here are some method of summarizing: First, prior
to skimming, use some previewing techniques.
Include the title and identify the author in your first
sentence. The first sentenced or two of your
summary should contain the author’s thesis, or
central concept, stated in your own words.
11. 6 easy technique in
summarizing various
academic text
Who, what, when, where, why, and
how. These questions make it easy to
identify the main character, important
details, and main idea.
12. Importance of summarizing
in academic writing
Summarizing is an important skill in
academic writing. It enables you to
extract the most important points from a
text and rewrite them in your own
words, in a shortened form. Such skills
are invaluable when you are note taking
and researching for an essay.