TIPS FOR FORMULATING THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT
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Full infinitive phrase, not as a fragment
Statement, not as a Question
Avoid Figurative language; must not be biased
Limit to one distinct idea
Not too vague or general
PHRASING THE CENTRAL IDEA
1. Topic
2. General Purpose
3. Specific Purpose
4. Central Idea
General Purpose - to educate
Specific Purpose - to let the users know that having too much time spent in social media can
lead to loss of bonding time with family or loved ones
Central Idea: Balancing the time spent in social media and bonding time with loved ones can
lead to an ideal relationship.
THREE COMMON TIPS
1. Use a common thread ; micro to macro; blast from the past- past - present - future
2. Present , Past, Future
3. Intro and Extro
2ND PART
SUMMARIZING
- Shortened versions
- If you can reduce something to its basic form, you understand it.
KINDS OF SUMMARIZING
1. Informative Summary
- Accurately convey the info contained in a text or in other type of resource
- Outlines present the skeleton
- Synopsis is a brief overview of an article, story, etc.
- Abstracts present the major point of long piece of text or an article
PARTS OF THE ABSTRACT
1. Intro - what makes the article interesting
2. Statement of the Problem - prob + scope of the study
3. Approach - how you solved the prob or made progress in the stud / methodology
4. Results - tells the readers the answer to the SOTP and its method
5. Conclusion - talks about significance and implications to a particular field
Number of Words - 150 - 300; 1 page only
2. Descriptive Summary - depict the original text (material) rather than directly presenting the
information it contains
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Executive summary is to describe a project, a specific course of action, or a business
proposal
Paraphrasing - method of rewriting a passage from an academic text to the paraphraser’s
manner and style and no longer that of the author.
OUTLINING
- Condensed version of an academic text in a linear, structured format; to organize
ideas within your academic text.
TYPES OF OUTLINE
1. Topic Outline
- Characterized by a systematic list of topics and subtopics written in words or
fragments.
2. Sentence Outline
- Structured in such way that both heading and the subheading are written in
complete sentences
3. Alphanumeric
- Uses a combination of words and numbers
- Topics and subtopics
- Roman / Letters / Numbers
4. Decimal Outline
CARDINAL RULES
1. Observe Pararellism
2. General ideas in heading, specific ideas in subheadings
3. Expand Heading into a more than 1 idea