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Advanced Academic English Literacy Dr. Phirunkhana Phichiensathien Facebook: Phirunkhan Bc Phi Line ID: faafaafairy

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Grading Scale: Assessment Assessment Scores Grades Assessment Method Week Proportion 84.5 - 100 A 79.5 – 84 B+ Quiz: Writing Techniques 6 15 74.5 – 79 B Writing Assignment 1: Literature Review 69.5 – 74 C+ 9 15 64.5 – 69 C Writing Assignment 2: Concept Paper 59.5 – 64 D+ Introduction 13 15 54.5 – 59 D 0 - 54.49 F Writing Assignment 3: Concept Paper 16 30 Concept Paper Presentation 15 Participation and discussion 15 10 (5+5) Throughout semester

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What is academic literacy? • understand academic vocabulary in context and connection of the different textual parts; • interpret and use metaphor and idiom, and identify the meaning of the word, wordplay, and vagueness; • interpret different text types (genres) and show understanding of the conveyed meaning of the text and the implied meaning of the audience aimed at, including interpreting and use language presented in a visual format; • aware of the logicality of the text genre from introductions to conclusions and identify the language use related in the different parts of a text; • recognize major and minor detail, fact and opinion, propositions and arguments, cause and effect, compartment and category handling data; • understand the communicative function of expression used in academic language (e.g., giving definition, describing, discussing); • see schematic or sequence of the text, produce a simple number of contextual sequences that are related to academic information, that allow comparisons to be made, and can be applied for an argument; • know what counts as evidence for an argument, infer information, and apply the information or its implications to other cases than the one at hand; • make meaning of an academic text beyond the sentence level (Weideman, 2014)

Types Of Academic 6 Genre What Is Genre? What Is Your Target Genre? 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy

What Is Genre? • Has been appearing in academic works 1960s • In social and cultural communication, “a set of communicative events, the members of which share some set of communicative purposes” (Swales, 1990, p. 58) • Used to categorize the different patterns of texts (abstracts, essays, and research articles) • Used to determine academic and professional texts (company audit) • In linguistic, applied to examine language used in terms of communicative purposes in text, form, and context in each disciplinary community 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 7

What Is Your Target Genre? • Essay format (descriptive, narrative, and argumentative), • Grant proposals, • Master’s theses or PhD dissertations • Abstracts, • Research Articles, or • Review (book review/ review articles) 1006712 Advanced Academic English 8 Literacy

What should you aware the target genre? What topic or title does the writer focus on? (Field) Who is the reader? (reader & writer relationship[Tenor]) What kind of the written text do you write? (Mode) What purpose of the written text? (Communicative purposes) 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 9

Example I: (Literacy) Narrative Essay • Shanon Nichols, a student at Wright State University, describes her experience taking the standardized writing proficiency test that high school students in Ohio must pass to graduate. She wrote this essay for a college writing course, where her audience included her classmates and instructor. 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 10

(literacy) narrative essay: example i: Tenor Communicative Field Purposes • Shanon Nichols, a student at Wright State University, describes her experience taking the standardized writing proficiency test that high school students in Ohio must pass to graduate. • She wrote this essay for a college writing course, where her audience included her classmates and instructor. Tenor Mode 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 11

Target Genre Awareness 12 • Key features • A well-told • Vivid detail • Some indication of the narrative’s significance 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy

Target Genre Awareness Key features: • Focus on her emotional reaction to failing the proficiency test • The contrast between her demonstrated writing ability and her repeated failures creates a tension that captures readers’ attention, so the readers want to know what will happen to her. 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 13

Target Genre Awareness A well-told: • Mostly presents some sort of situation that needs to be resolved. • This need of resolution can give readers to keep on reading. • As such, the reader might want to know whether Nichols ultimately will pass the proficiency test. Some literacy narrative essays simple explore the role that reading or writing played at some time in people’s life by assuming. 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 14

Target Genre Awareness Vivid detail: • The details can bring a narrative to life for readers by giving them vivid mental images of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures of the world in which your story takes place. The details you use when describing something can help reader’s picture places, people, and events; dialogue can help them hear what is being said. As seen, “to my surprise, I did pass every part—except writing.8 ‘writing! Yeah right! How did I manage to fail writing, and by half a point, no less?\"9 I thought to myself in disbelief.10 seeing my test results brought tears to my eyes.11” 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 15

Target Genre Awareness Some indication of the narrative’s significance • Literacy narrative essay tells something the writer remembers about learning to read and write. • The writer needs to make clear why the incident matters to him or her, so you should reveal the significance in various ways. • For example, as Nichols does it when she says she no longer loves to read or write… 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 16

Read the essay examples 2 to 4 and identify the organization and language features as much as you can. Instructions: Identify the organization of the comparative and contrastive essay 17 by answering questions below. 1.Based on the above essay, please identify • Introductory paragraph: sentences _________________ • Body paragraph: sentences ________________________ • Concluding paragraph: sentences __________________ 2. Where is hook located in? Please identify. 3. Where is thesis statement? Please identify. 4. What is main idea of paragraph 2, 3, and 4? Please identify. 5. What is conclusion of the essay? Please identify. 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy

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Connection of Reading & Writing • Dear Prof. Seward • Hi, Seward (Morrow, 1990) • Who is the writer/reader? • How closed relationship are they? 1006712 Advanced Academic English Literacy 22

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Understanding of Research Process and Writing Research Report

Research Process and Writing Research Report • identify the problems or brainstorm your ideas in the prewriting stage. • After narrowing down the issue by choosing an interesting topic, you should find the resources to search for the general background and the key ideas. • search the reliable articles for reviewing your research (literature review) in university libraries and other resources, e.g. e-journals, textbooks, and RAs in peer-reviewed journals.

Three Criteria for Source Evaluation 1. Reputation of the sources 2. Quality of printing matter and publication 3. Timeliness of the source

Research Process and Writing Research Report • formulate the research objective(s) or research question(s) and • plan your research design and identify how to collect your data. • collect quantitative and qualitative data depending on your objective(s) or research question(s). • The famous instruments are the questionnaire and interview question. • The data will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively from the instruments. • Discuss the data according to the research objective(s) or research question(s). • The findings of the study will be reviewed and concluded in the research report.

Present Your Research • Refer to the notes section below for guidelines on this topic.

Research Presentation End