EAPP

Critical Reading

• scrutinizing any information that you read or hear

• not easily believing information offered to you by a text

Academic Text

• critical, objective, specialized texts written by experts or professionals in a given field using formal language

• formal, objective, and technical

Academic Writing

• Literary Analysis

• Research Paper

• Dissertation (High Level Thesis)

Structure

• the three part essay

• IMRaD

The Three Part Essay

• introduction

  • provide idea of the focus and aim of the text

• body

  • main part of the text, where the analysis and discussion will be carried out

• conclusion

  • brief restatement of the main arguments stated

IMRaD

• Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion

Plagiarism

• using somebody else’s work or idea withouth proper acknowledgement or citation and copying text without paraphrasing it

Ways to avoid plagiarism

• paraphrase

• quotation

• citation