REVIEWER IN EAPP 2ND WRITTEN
TASK
Lesson 4: Outlining
✓ Process of organizing thoughts
and ideas in logical way
✓ Step-by-step process
✓ Helps writer what to include and
not to include
✓ To
visualize
our
paper’s
potential structure
✓ To understand how author will
connect information to support
thesis statement.
Purpose of Outline
•
An outline is made to
categorize information to be
included in an essay.
Sentence Outline
•
It is an organized list of related
ideas in complete sentences to
express specific and complex
details.
Main Point
•
In the outline format, this is the
first big idea.
Topic Outline
•
It is a systematic arrangement of
related ideas expressed in words
and phrases.
Thesis Statement
•
It is a one-sentence summary
that guides, controls, and unifies
ideas when writing a paper.
Basic Forms of Outline
1. Alphanumeric Outline
✓ Letters and numbers
✓ Most common type
Follows in order:
•
•
•
•
Roman Numerals (I, II)
Capitalized Letter, (A, B)
Arabic Numbers, (1, 2)
Lowercase Number (a, b)
2. Decimal Outline
• Decimal figures
Follows in order:
•
•
•
1.1
1.2
1.3
TIPS IN OUTLINING
1. Parallelism
2. Items in equal significance
should be in similar category
3. Major and minor components of
outlines
4. First letter must be capitalized
5. Any point should at least have 2
sub points
6. Consistency is a must
LESSON 5: CRITICAL APPROACHES
IN WRITING A CRITIQUE
1. Formalist Approach
• Emphasize the form of a
literary work:
✓ Meaning
✓ Focusing
on
literary text
✓ How work to create
meaning
✓ Theme
✓
2. Biographical Approach
• Emphasize
the
importance of author’s
life and background.
• Ex. Dr. Jose Rizal’s novels
3. Historical Approach
• Focus on its era and
significant events that
happened during the time
4. Marxist Approach
• Focus on how power,
class, politics, wealth,
and
economic
status
influence the theme of the
literary work.
5. Feminist Approach
• Emphasize on the roles,
positions, and influence
of woman within literary
text.
6. Reader Response Approach
• Emphasize the meaning
of the work dependent
upon
the
reader’s
response and personal
connection.
• Subjective
LESSON
6:
CONCEPT
(ELUCIDATING)
PAPER
3 ways a writer can elucidate a concept
A. Concept by Definition
-a mode of paragraph development
that answers the questions:
-What is it? What does it mean? What
are its special features?
-The word to be defined may be:
• Object
• Concept
• Place
• Person
• Phenomenon
Techniques of Definition:
1. Formal Definition
-define the term by giving the
class where the word/term
belongs.
-characteristics that distinguish
the term from other terms, known
as differentia.
Ex. Vitamin E is a light-yellow fatsoluble vitamin that acts as antioxidant.
2. Extended Definition
-detailed way of defining a term
and is usually presented in a
paragraph.
-needed to be define abstract
concepts such as love, hope.
Ex.
• Formal
• Informal
• Comparison and contrast
• Narration
• Description
• Classification
• Cause and effect
B. Concept by Explication
-a method of explanation in which
sentences, verses, quotes, and phrases
are taken from literary and academic
work then interpreted and explained in
a detailed way.
C. Concept by Clarification
-general ideas to specific and concrete
examples.
-The analysis of the concept is done by
looking at the examples and specifying
its characteristics
-it shows a clear explanation of the
points about a particular subject.