Essential Texts: Conceptual Understanding about Academic Text

     Greetings audience. The topic for this blog shall mainly talk about the academic text. Just a brief recap from the previous blog, academic text is a formal text usually written by professionals or students that is intended for the entire academia and is organizably formatted. Academic text also prevents from using words such as contractions, slang. colloquial and idioms. However, there are more concepts to discuss about this certain topic, so in this blog, more about academic text will be introduced.

    In academic text, there are mainly four techniques to remember when making them. First is formal. When making academic texts, casual talk is prohibited. Second, impersonal. It should not talk about your personal thoughts and feelings. Third, is to be precise. All data mentioned should be presented accurately. Lastly, objective. Avoid bias and results will always base from facts.

    There are nine main structures of academic text: definition, description, recount of sequence, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, enumeration, problem and solution, classification and thesis evidence. Definition means to explain something, description means to give details about a certain word given, recount of sequence means to organize narration, cause and effect means as to what and how it a certain phenomena happens, comparison and contrast means to find the similarities and differences, enumeration is listing parts and characteristics, problem and solution means to figuring out a positive outcome from a negative income, classification means to present variety of categories, and lastly, thesis evidence means to clearly present evidence to the theory. These structures are very important in making an academic text.

    In thesis statement mentioned on the previous paragraph, there are 3 types the explanatory, the argumentative and the analytical. The explanatory focuses only on discussing factual information that is not supported by evidence. The argumentative focuses on the writer's factual stance. Lastly, analytical  focuses on figuring out the topic and then speaking the conclusions based from what was observed. These thesis statement will contribute in building your academic text more thoroughly.

    Overall, academic text is informative, formalized, organized and structuralized. These four words, make up an academic text. It is important to understand academic text for it is what to use in potentially future purposes. Academic text can help innovate skills and minds. Reading academic texts may be odd to do for some people, however, academic texts is beneficial to the academia and most of all the entire community. That is all for this blog, thank you for reading this far and see you next week!