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What is fundamental?According to Cambridge Dictionary it is the main or most important rules or parts.

Academic Texts: Full concentration and comprehension are required for you to understand key ideas, information, themes, or arguments of the text.

Academic Text Non-academic Text

- are written by professionals in a given field.

- They are edited by the authors' peers and often take years to publish.

- are written for the mass public.

- published quickly and can be written by anyone.

Academic Text Non-academic Text

- language is formal and will contain words and terms typical to the field.

- authors name will be present, as will their credentials.

- language is informal, casual and may contain slang.

- author will not have any credentials listed.

Some examples of Academic Text:Articles:

An academic text that offers results of research and development that can either impact the academic community or provide relevance to nation building

Conference paper:Papers presented in scholastic conferences and may

be revised as articles for possible publication in scholarly journals.

Some examples of Academic Text:

ReviewsAn academic text that provides evaluation or

reviews of works published in scholarly journals

Theses, DissertationsThese are personal researched written by a

candidate for a college of university.

Other Examples of Academic Text

Textbooks

Case Studies

Reports

Research Articles

Reading Goals:

1. Why am I reading this text?

2. What information or pieces of information do I need?

3. What do I want to learn?

Content and Style of Academic Text:Authors of academic texts:➔ raise abstract questions and issues.➔ present facts and evidence to support their claims.➔ use logic to build their arguments and defend their

positions.➔ conform to a clearly-defined structure.➔ choose their words carefully to present their arguments as

effectively as possible.➔ try to convince us to accept their positions.

Critical Reading StrategiesBefore reading:

● Determine which type of academic text you are reading

● Determine and establish your purpose of reading● Identify the author's purpose for writing● Predict or infer the main idea or argument of the

text based on its title● State what you already know and what you want to

learn about the topic

Critical Reading StrategiesDuring Reading● Annotate important parts of the text.

● This helps you determine essential ideas or information, main ideas or arguments, and new information and ideas.

add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.

Critical Reading StrategiesAfter reading:

● Reflect on what you learned.● Link the main idea of the text to what you already

know.

Other Reading Strategies● SQ3R Method: Survey(or skim), question, read,

recite(or recall), review.

● KWL Method: K - what you Know

W - what you Want to knowL - what you've Learned

KWhat I know

WWhat i want to

learn

LWhat I have

learned.● There is a

connection between language and

gender.● Women and men are

on different levels of talkativeness.

● Are women really more talkative than

men?● What accounts for

the difference in the frequency of language use

between men and women.

● Women are reported to speak 20,000

words a day while men speak an

average of 7,000 words.

● Foxp2 protein is one of the genes

associated with language.

Try it!

Create your own KWL chart using “Academic Text” as a topic, minimum of three answers in each category.

KWhat I know

WWhat i want to

learn

LWhat I have

learned.

Check Your Understanding Write T if the statement is True and F if it is False.1. Academic reading requires concentration and

comprehension.2.Academic texts are completely different from non-

academic text in terms of structure, content and style.

3.Authors of academic texts usually present facts to support their main argument.

1.Completing academic reading appears to be a challenge in which students fail.

2.Critical reading strategies lead the readers to a full understanding of the text.

3.One has to determine his/her purpose of reading.

● 4 examples of academic text. ● 3 questions before you read an academic text

(Reading goals) ● 2 other critical strategies in reading

Task:

I. Before reading the text answer the following questions below using the topic from the article you brought in the class.

- Why am I reading this text? - What information or pieces of information do I need? - What do I want to learn?

II.This time try to employ the KWL Method using the academic text that your teacher asked you to bring. Put 5 responses per category.

Write your answers on a piece of bond paper