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Directions: Read the following questions and choose the letter of the BEST answer. Write your
answers on the space before each number.

1. When you write an academic paper, what point of view will you use?
a. first person
b. second person
c. third person

2. What kind of language should be used in writing academic text?

a. colloquial
b. formal
c. informal

3. What is the meaning of layman’s term?

a. words that are hard to understand.
b. words that are easy to understand
c. words that are having a lot of meaning.

4. The following are examples of academic text except .

a. Journal
b. Research Paper
c. Short Stories

5. Which of the following elements deals with the writer’s goal in writing a text?
a. audience
b. purpose
c. style
6. What feature of language requires the writer not to include personal emotions
in the text?
a. Caution
b. Formality
c. Objectivity

7. What feature of language requires the writer to be careful on writing?

a. caution
b. formality
c. objectivity

8. How do you determine your language when you write an academic paper?

a. consider the rules in writing

b. consider the audience
c. consider your knowledge

9. What does “to persuade” mean in academic writing?

a. To let the audience argue with the author
b. To let the audience believe in the author
c. To let the audience discredit the author

10. Which of the following deals with the way the writer organize a text?
a. audience
b. purpose
d. style
11. It reflects your dignified stance in writing as a member of academic
community.
a. Caution
b. Formality
c. Objectivity
12. In this feature of language, written language should not be personal.
a. Caution
b. Formality
c. Objectivity

13. The author in this writing style is explaining a concept.

a. Expository
b. Descriptive
c. Persuasive

14. The author in this kind of writing style is convincing the reader to believe in
his/her position or belief in writing.
a. Expository
b. Descriptive
c. Persuasive

15. What kind of description should be used in descriptive writing style?

a. vivid
b. vague
c. unrealistic
Directions: Check the kind/s of writing you are familiar with.

1. essay
2. journal
3. diary
4. reaction paper
5. invitation letter
6. science writing
7. fiction stories
8. biography
9. bibliography
10. research paper

Directions: Unscramble the letters to form new word/s. Write your answer on the
space after each item.

1. ADECACIM INGWTRI 6.DEIUANCE

2. CUBJSET 7. NIOPT FO WEIV

3. NETO 8.LESTY

4. RUPPEOS 9.NOWLEKGED

5. GAGEUANLA 10.PLIEXCIT
 Language Used in Academic Text from Various Disciplines

Writing is one of the Four Macro Skills that a student should possess. It is one of
the media of communication in order for us to pass information to people. One of these
writings that a student should know is Academic Writing. In this module you as a
student will learn Academic Writing and the language that should be used in writing
academic text.

Let us define key terms you will meet in this discussion.

1. Academic Writing - is a kind of writing that can be used in academia or

school.
2. Subject – pertains to the topic of the text.
3. Tone – pertains to the attitude of the writer about the text. It can be
distinguished through the words used by the author.
4. Purpose – is information that an author wants to imply to the reader.
5. Language – are the words used by the author in writing an academic text.
Academic writing requires formal language.
6. Audience –pertains to the reader in writing.
7. Point of View – refers to how the writer tells the information in the reading text.
An academic text is always in the third person point of view.
8. Style – refers to how the author arranges his or her writing.
9. Knowledge – is the amount of information that an author knows about his or
her topic. The reader is the one who can distinguish how much knowledge an
author has in the topic he or she is writing.
10. Explicit – means that the information should be precise and clear.
 Academic Writing

Academic Writing is a kind of writing that can be used in academia or school. It has
a process that starts with posing a question, conceptualizing a problem, evaluating an
opinion and ends in answering a question posed, clarifying a problem or arguing for a
stand. The specific purposes of academic writing are to inform, to persuade and to
argue that address specific audience or the teacher. To inform means supplementing
a lot of information about the topic. To Persuade means having the credibility to make
your audience or readers believe in you. To argue means making your readers or
audience respond on the information you are telling them.

Academic writing also requires formal language or word that does not contain
colloquial or jargon words. It usually uses layman’s term or the term that is easy to
understand. It avoids the use of hifalutin words or words that have deep meaning.
Academic writing is all about thinking:

 It follows certain rules and standards.

 Language to be used in writing academic text should be formal.
 Audience should be first taken into consideration.

All the information included in this kind of text should be backed up by valid
evidence.
Four Features of Language

1. Formality reflects your dignified stance in writing as a member of an academic

community. This means that in your writing, you should avoid colloquial words and
expressions.
- The language use requires precision to make it a legitimate piece of writing.

Formality can be achieved through the following ways:

• Choosing expanded modal forms over contracted forms, such as using cannot
instead of can’t, do not instead of don’t.
• Choosing one verb form over two-word verbs, such as damage instead of mess
up.
• Choosing expanded terms over their abbreviated equivalents, such as as soon as
possible instead of ASAP.
 • Avoiding colloquial/idiomatic expressions, such as kind of like, as a matter of fact,
sort of.

Other Examples:

• Calculate - James added up the number of attendees in his party.

• Purchase (someone’s assets) - The large company bought out the smaller ones.
• Cancel - The teacher was to call off the noisy students immediately.
• Continue - The meeting will carry on even without your presence.
• Discover - The purpose of this meeting is to find out what would be your idea
about our new project.

2. Objectivity means that the focus of the information is on the topic rather on the
writer itself. Written language should not be personal but rather in general objective.

It can be achieved by:

a. Avoiding the use of personal pronouns such as you, I, my, and we.
Poor example: You need to follow instructions.
Improved version: The researchers need to follow instructions.

b. Avoiding rhetorical questions because academic writing should not assume that
the readers know the answer in the statement and the author should express the
information strongly and clearly.
Poor example: How can these problems be solved?
Improved version: Certain procedures must be discovered to solve problems.

c. Avoiding emotive language that shows biases. Giving an overly favorable opinion
of someone can eliminate objectivity.
Poor example: The police investigators were shocked to see the outcome of the tests.
Improved version: The police investigators did not expect the results.

3. Explicitness in academic writing demands the use of signposts that allow readers to
trace the relationships in the parts of the study. If you intend to show a change in your line
of argument, make it clear by using however.
Example:
It is apparent that the school institutions hope to provide quality education to the learners.
However, having this COVID-19 pandemic requires a lot of effort to reach out students.

The following phrases may be useful in making ideas explicit:

1. This is due to the…
A number of MERALCO consumers trooped to the City Hall to claim a P500 cash
incentive. This is due to the Supreme Court ruling that overcharges must be returned to
the end users whose electric consumption for the April-May period was below 100kw/hr.
2. This resulted in…
With the Supreme Court ordering MERALCO to return overcharges to the end users,
government offices have been tapped to operate as claim centers. This resulted in a
number of MERALCO consumers trooping to the City Hall to claim the P500 cash
incentive.
• When two ideas seem the same, express each one clearly.
The study showed that eighty percent of the 200 participants involved in the study were
dissatisfied with the operations of MERALCO. Similarly, the data revealed that majority of
the participants were not aware of the charges imposed on them by MERALCO.
• If you intend to give extra information in your sentence, make it clear by
writing “In addition...”
MERALCO has been operating as a business conglomerate involving foreign
stakeholders and independent power producer or IPP. In addition, MERALCO owns major
IPPs operating in the region.
• If you are giving examples, do so explicitly by writing “For example…”
The MERALCO issue has led to disputes between opposition and administration
senators. For example, those who have been labeled as against the president considered
the issue as the administration/s way of avoiding the NBN-ZTE scandal.

4. Caution in academic writing requires care since knowledge is built on proven theories
and concepts. Caution is needed to avoid sweeping generalizations.
Government officials are corrupt.
The statement is not completely true and the rhetorical impact of the statement may
be misleading. The statement can be improved through the use of devices such as modal
verbs, adverbs, or verbs.
Improved versions:
Some government officials may be corrupt.
Corruption is commonly linked to some key government officials.

Types of Writing Styles

There are four main types of writing: expository, descriptive, persuasive and narrative.
Each of these writing styles is used for a specific purpose. A single text may include more
than one writing styles
Expository
This means that the author is trying to explain a concept, imparting information to the
audience. It is not subjective but rather focuses on facts that are supported by evidence.
Examples of Expository Writing:
 textbooks
 articles
 recipes
 news stories (not editorials or op-eds)
 business, technical or scientific writing

Descriptive Writing
Descriptive style means painting a picture of a person, place, or thing through words.
It is often found in fiction, though it can make an appearance to non-fiction as well Memoirs,
first-hand accounts, and events or travel guides are examples of descriptive writing. The
author might employ metaphor or other literary devices in order to describe the author’s
impressions using their five senses.

Persuasive Writing
It is the main style of writing you will use in academic papers. When an author writes in a
persuasive style, he/she is trying to convince the audience of a position or belief. Persuasive
writing contains the author’s opinions and biases, as well as justifications or reasons given
by the author as evidence of the correctness of their position. Any “argumentative” essay
you write in school should be in the persuasive style of writing. The examples of persuasive
writing include cover letters, op-eds and editorial newspaper articles, reviews of items,
letters of complaint, advertisements, and letters of recommendation.

Narrative Writing
Narrative writing is used in almost every longer piece of writing, whether fiction or
non-fiction. When an author writes in a narrative style, he/she is not just trying to convey
information, rather tries to construct and communicate a story, complete with characters,
conflict and settings. The examples of narrative writing include oral histories,
novels/novellas, poetry (specifically, epic sagas or poems), short stories, and anecdotes.
Independent Activity 1

True or False

Directions: Write T if the statement is true, otherwise write F if it is false. Write your answer
on the space before each number.

1. Academic writing has three main purposes.

2. Formality in language means avoiding the use of colloquial terms.
3. Objectivity is more on personal matters of the writer.
4. To persuade means to make your readers believe in you.
5. It is possible to write academic text without presenting evidence.

Independent Assessment 1

Directions: Identify what is being described in the following statements. Write your answer
on the space before each number.

1. Academic writing demands the use of signposts that allow

readers to trace the relationships of the parts of the study.
2. It requires formal language that does not contain colloquial or
jargon words.
3. Written language should not be personal but rather objective.
4. Academic writing requires care since knowledge is built on
proven theories and concepts.
5. Avoiding emotive language that shows biases.
6. It has a process that starts with posing a question,
conceptualizing a problem, evaluating an opinion and ends in
answering a question posed, clarifying a problem or arguing for
a stand.
7. It reflects your dignified stance in writing as a member of the
academic community.
8. This is how the author arranges his or her writing.
9. Academic writing should not assume that the readers know the
answer in the statement, and the author should express the
information strongly and clearly.
10. It instructs choosing expanded terms over their abbreviated
equivalents, such as, as soon as possible instead of ASAP.
Independent Activity 2

Directions: Read the following texts carefully. Fill in the matrix below with the features of
academic writing.

Sample Text 1:
The Effects of Technology on Our World

Technology affects people all over the world, both positively and negatively. While I
do agree that advances in technology have made our countries safer and our lives easier,
they have also negatively affected our lives. My parents did not grow up in front of a
computer or a PlayStation. They did not spend hours each day looking at what their virtual
friends are doing on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Instead, they went out with flesh and
blood friends, played football, or simply took a walk in the woods. But, of course, they didn’t
pay for an ice cream using a credit card and didn’t buy movie tickets online.

Advances in technology have brought us online banking, smart cars, smart TVs,
lightning fast computers, and the latest buzz: virtual reality. However, they also brought us
cyber warfare, hackers, identity theft, cyber stalking, and a host of other bad things. Also,
people started getting lazy and more ignorant. Long gone are the days when people were
flocking to the library – if only to do some research for a school assignment. Nowadays, one
can find everything on the Internet. Instead of playing some football or having a fun snowball
fight, children are playing video games for hours.

Bicycles have been replaced by e-bikes (electric bikes). Rollerblades have been
replaced with electric motorized skates. Yes, they’re fun; can’t argue with that! However,
they are making children more sedentary. And, as you know, a sedentary lifestyle has major
negative health consequences. People are slowly forgetting that physical activity is an
important part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Consequently, advances in technology are
having negative effects on our health.

I agree that technology has taken us to Mars. Many crimes no longer go unpunished
due to innovative technologies that help criminal investigators find the culprits. Thousands of
lives are saved each year by the latest medical technologies (used to perform complex
surgeries and identify life-threatening diseases). There is no question about it: technology is
an integral part of our daily lives.

In conclusion, it all depends on how you use technology. It is slowly taking over the
world and you can find it everywhere around you. How you use technology is important. It is
designed to make our lives easier, but should never be replacing physical exercise, walking,
reading, and socializing with real human beings.
Sample Text 2:

July 28, 2020

JOHN DEE
Dee Consulting
56 Liway Street, Novaliches Quezon City

Dear Dr. John Dee:

HYML is a group of business minded youths living in the City area. Each of our members
started their business at the age 20 from which they already earn a living, having with the
same perspectives we gather to help achieve our dream together.

We follow set of structures from the good books that we are reading and tracking our
business’ progress from time to time. Your book entitled “Go Let’s, Go!” is one of the
books that we have used and majority of our members experienced progress while
learning it.

Among other things on your website, I appreciate one of your goals that has to do with
‘helping novice people succeed’. And in this regard I would like to formally invite you to
be the main speaker at our annual year-end party dinner. This is schedule for Sunday the
2nd of August, 2020 at the Quezon City Hall. I know that our members will be excited to
meet you in person.

Kindly confirm your acceptance for the date. However, if you are not available to speak
for that day, we still have ample time to make some date changes to accommodate your
availabilities. I could be reached by phone at 09236415537 or via email
at Arys@HYML.org.

Our website is www.HYML.org to give you more information about the group.

Sincerely,

ARYS SANCHEZ
President
Sample Text 3:

What Is Reading?
An Excerpt from Reading for Understanding
By: Christine Cziko, Cynthia Greenleaf, Lori Hurwitz, and Ruth Schoenbach

It is probably self-evident that the conceptions educators hold about the nature of reading
shape their approaches to helping students improve their reading abilities. Some current
approaches to supporting adolescent reading improvement address students' word-level
reading problems as a precondition for working on other levels of reading improvement. Our
reading apprenticeship approach is different because our understanding of the nature of
reading is different. Here is a brief outline of what we have learned from existing research
and our own observation.

Reading is not just a basic skill.

Many people think of reading as a skill that is taught once and for all in the first few years of
school. In this view of reading the credit (or blame) for students' reading ability goes to
primary grade teachers, and upper elementary and secondary school teachers at each
grade level need teach only new vocabulary and concepts relevant to new content. Seen
this way, reading is a simple process: readers decode (figure out how to pronounce) each
word in a text and then automatically comprehend the meaning of the words, as they do with
their everyday spoken language. This is not our understanding of reading.

Reading is a complex process.

Think for a moment about the last thing you read. A student essay? A school bulletin? A
newspaper analysis of rising conflict in another part of the world? A report on water quality in
your community? A novel? If you could recapture your mental processing, you would notice
that you read with reference to a particular world of knowledge and experience related to the
text. The text evoked voices, memories, knowledge, and experiences from other times and
places—some long dormant, some more immediate. If you were reading complex text about
complex ideas or an unfamiliar type of text, you were working to understand it, your reading
most likely characterized by many false starts and much backtracking. You were probably
trying to relate it to your existing knowledge and understanding. You might have stumbled
over unfamiliar words and found yourself trying to interpret them from the context. And you
might have found yourself having an internal conversation with the author, silently agreeing
or disagreeing with what you read.

As experienced readers read, they begin to generate a mental representation, or gist, of the
text, which serves as an evolving framework for understanding subsequent parts of the text.
As they read further, they test this evolving meaning and monitor their understanding,
paying attention to inconsistencies that arise as they interact with the text. If they notice they
are losing the meaning as they read, they draw on a variety of strategies to readjust their
understandings. They come to texts with purposes that guide their reading, taking a stance
toward the text and responding to the ideas that take shape in the conversation between the
text and the self (Ruddel and Unrau 1994).

While reading a newspaper analysis of global hostilities, for example, you may silently argue
with its presentation of "facts," question the assertions of the writer, and find yourself
revisiting heated debates with friends over U.S. foreign policy. You may picture events
televised during earlier wars. Lost in your recollections, you may find that even though your
eyes have scanned several paragraphs, you have taken nothing in, so you reread these
passages, this time focusing on analysis.

Reading is problem solving.

Reading is not a straightforward process of lifting the words off the page. It is a complex
process of problem solving in which the reader works to make sense of a text not just from
the words and sentences on the page but also from the ideas, memories, and knowledge
evoked by those words and sentences. Although at first glance reading may seem to be
passive, solitary, and simple, it is in truth active, populated by a rich mix of voices and views
—those of the author, of the reader, and of others the reader has heard, read about, and
otherwise encountered throughout life.

Fluent reading is not the same as decoding.

Skillful reading does require readers to carry out certain tasks in a fairly automatic manner.
Decoding skills—quick word recognition and ready knowledge of relevant vocabulary, for
example—are essential to successful reading. However, they are by no means sufficient,
especially when texts are complex or otherwise challenging.

Yet many discussions about struggling readers confuse decoding with fluency. Fluency
derives from the reader's ability not just to decode or identify individual words but also to
quickly process larger language units. In our inquiries into reading—our own and that of our
students—we have seen that fluency, like other dimensions of reading, varies according to
the text at hand.

When readers are unfamiliar with the particular language structures and features of a text,
their language-processing ability breaks down. This means, for example, that teachers
cannot assume that students who fluently read narrative or literary texts will be equally fluent
with expository texts or primary source documents.
Fluency begins to develop when students have frequent opportunities to read texts that are
easy for them. Multiple rereadings of more difficult texts help broaden a reader's fluency
(Pikulski 1998). Perhaps most important for adolescent readers, fluency grows as they have
opportunities, support, and encouragement to read a wide range of text types about a wide
range of topics.

Reading is situationally bounded.

A person who understands one type of text is not necessarily proficient at reading all types.
An experienced reader of dessert cookbooks can understand what is meant by "turn out on
a wire rack to finish cooling" but may be completely unable to make sense of a legal brief. A
political science undergraduate can understand that the phrase "on the other hand I will
argue" leads into the author's main point and that the main point will be in contrast to the
earlier discussion. But that same undergraduate may feel lost when trying to read the poetry
recommended by a friend. A good reader of a motorcycle repair manual can make sense of
directions that might stump an English literature professor, but may be unable to
comprehend her son's chemistry text. And a chemistry teacher may feel completely insecure
when trying to understand some of the original source history materials on a colleague's
course reading list.

In other words, reading is influenced by situational factors, among them the experiences
readers have had with particular kinds of texts and reading for particular purposes. And just
as so-called good or proficient readers do not necessarily read all texts with equal ease or
success, a so-called poor or struggling reader will not necessarily have a hard time with all
texts. That said, researchers do know some things about those readers who are more
consistently effective across a broad range of texts and text types.

Proficient readers share some key characteristics.

Different reading researchers emphasize different characteristics of good or proficient
reader. However, despite contention in many other areas of reading research, when it
comes to proficient readers, widespread agreement has emerged in the form of a set of key
habits of proficient readers. This consensus could be summarized as follows (Baumann and
Duffy 1997):

Good readers are . . .

Mentally engaged,
Motivated to read and to learn,
Socially active around reading tasks,
Strategic in monitoring the interactive processes that assist comprehension:
Setting goals that shape their reading processes,
Monitoring their emerging understanding of a text, and
Coordinating a variety of comprehension strategies to control the reading process.

Matrix:

Identify the following in the Sample Text 1 Sample Text 2 Sample Text 3
given text.

1. Purpose

2. Language

3. Audience

4. Tone (Formal/Informal)
Explain

4. Style in Writing
Independent Assessment 2

Directions: Using the Venn Diagram, differentiate academic text from non-academic text.

ACADEMIC TEXT NON-ACADEMIC TEXT

Independent Activity 3
Directions: From the given scenarios below, choose one and write a sample of academic
text that best suit to the scene. Following the given rubrics, write your answer on the space
provided for.

1. Scene 1.

Mario is about to go to school then suddenly he felt dizzy and wasn’t able to get up
so he’s mother just asked him to take a rest and said that she will just send a letter
to his adviser.

2. Scene 2.
Teacher Jessica is planning to have a culminating activity for her sections in
English subject, but she needs to ask first permission to her school head.

3. Scene 3.
The adviser of Joseph asked them to write an essay about the pandemic that they
are experiencing.
Rubrics:
Content 5 points – The 3 points – the 1 point – the content
content is clear and content is somewhat is far from the given
suits to the given clear and somewhat scene.
scene. suit to the given
scene.
Style 5 points – can easily 3 points – the style is 1 point – no clear
identify the style hard to distinguish. writing syle was
used in writing. applied.
Language 5 point – language 3 points – have 1 point –have
was used correctly committed 5 or more committed 10 or
without incorrect incorrect spelling and more incorrect
grammar and punctuations. spelling and
punctuations. punctuations
Purpose The purpose of the 3 points – the 1 – the purpose of
author is easy to purpose of the the author is not
understand. author is somewhat visible.
vague.
Independent Assessment 3
Directions: Write a five-sentence paragraph about what you have learned about the lesson.

Rubrics:
Content 5 points – The 3 points – the 1 point – the content
content is clear and content is somewhat is far from the given
suits to the given clear and somewhat scene.
scene. suit to the given
scene.
Style 5 points – can easily 3 points – the style is 1 point – no clear
identify the style hard to distinguish. writing syle was
used in writing. applied.
Language 5 point – language 3 points – have 1 point –have
was used correctly committed 5 or more committed 10 or
without incorrect incorrect spelling and more incorrect
grammar and punctuations. spelling and
punctuations. punctuations
Purpose The purpose of the 3 points – the 1 – the purpose of
author is easy to purpose of the the author is not
understand. author is somewhat visible.
vague.

Directions: Answer the following questions based on the lesson on academic text. Write
your answers on the space provided for.

1. What is an academic text?

_
__

2. What are the processes in writing an academic text?

 3. What are the four features of language and their definition?

4. Give an example of the four styles in writing:

a. Narrative
b. Descriptive
c. Expository
d. Persuasive

5. How is academic writing different from other forms of writing? Explain.

Directions: Write a five-sentence paragraph explaining the guidelines in academic writing.

Rubrics:

Content 5 points – The 3 points – the 1 point – the content

content is clear and content is somewhat is far from the given
suits to the given clear and somewhat scene.
scene. suit to the given
scene.
Language 5 point – language 3 points – have 1 point –have
was used correctly committed 5 or more committed 10 or
without incorrect incorrect spelling and more incorrect
grammar and punctuations. spelling and
punctuations. punctuations
Directions: Write the letter of the best answer on the space before each number.
1. How do you determine your language when you are writing academic
paper?
A. consider the audience B. consider the rules in writing
C. consider your purpose or topic D. consider your knowledge.

2. When you write an academic paper what point of view will you use?
A. first person B. second person C. third person D. none of these
3. What kind of writing requires a writer to have more knowledge about a
chosen topic?
A. academic writing B. creative writing C. free writing D.letter writing

4. What language is used in academic writing?

A. casual B. colloquial C. formal D. informal

5. Which of the following deals with the way the writer organize a text?
A. audience B. purpose C. style D. tone

6. Which of the following deals with the writer’s goal in writing a text?
A. audience B. purpose C. style D. tone

7. Which of the following is considered as the target readers of the text?

A. audience B. purpose C. style D. tone

8. It is the process that starts in posing question, conceptualizing a problem,

evaluating an opinion and ends in answering the question posed.
A. academic writing B. creative Writing
C. essay writing D. Free Writing

9. What feature of language is applied when a writer does not include

personal emotions in the text.
A. caution
B. explicitness
C. formality
D. objectivity

10. What feature of language is requiring you to take a lot of care on your
writing.
A. caution
B. explicitness
C. formality
D. objectivity
11. What kind of description should be used in descriptive writing style?
A. vivid
B. vague
C. unrealistic
D. imaginary
 12. The author in this kind of writing style is convincing the reader to believe in
his/her position or belief.
A. Expository
B. Descriptive
C. Persuasive
D. Narrative

13. The author in this writing style is explaining a concept.

A. Expository
B. Descriptive
C. Persuasive
D. Narrative

14. A feature of language that tells that a written language should not be
personal.
A. Caution
B. Formality
C. Objectivity
D. Explicitness

15. It reflects your dignified stance in writing as a member of an academic

community.
A. Caution
B. Formality
C. Objectivity
D. Explicitness

Directions: Do a little research among your classmates about COVID-19 virus and write
an academic text about it with the purpose of giving information.
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content is clear and content is somewhat is far from the given
suits to the given clear and somewhat scene.
scene. suit to the given
scene.
Style 5 points – can easily 3 points – the style is 1 point – no clear
identify the style hard to distinguish. writing syle was
used in writing. applied.
Language 5 point – language 3 points – have 1 point –have
was used correctly committed 5 or more committed 10 or
without incorrect incorrect spelling and more incorrect
grammar and punctuations. spelling and
punctuations. punctuations
Purpose The purpose of the 3 points – the 1 – the purpose of
author is easy to purpose of the the author is not
understand. author is somewhat visible.
vague.
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