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Language and Text Structure Across Discipline

This document discusses the language and text structures used across different academic disciplines. It identifies some key features of texts in mathematics, business, social sciences, natural sciences, and literature/arts. For mathematics texts, it notes the use of symbols, special meanings, formulas, and problem-solution structure. For business texts, it outlines the use of jargon, compound nouns, memo conventions, and polite communication. For social sciences, it mentions the use of discipline-specific jargon, graphs, tables, and historical recounts, causes and effects, and comparisons. For natural sciences, it lists technical terms, symbols, abbreviations, diagram use, and information-heavy dense texts. For literature/arts, it outlines the use

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Language and Text Structure Across Discipline

This document discusses the language and text structures used across different academic disciplines. It identifies some key features of texts in mathematics, business, social sciences, natural sciences, and literature/arts. For mathematics texts, it notes the use of symbols, special meanings, formulas, and problem-solution structure. For business texts, it outlines the use of jargon, compound nouns, memo conventions, and polite communication. For social sciences, it mentions the use of discipline-specific jargon, graphs, tables, and historical recounts, causes and effects, and comparisons. For natural sciences, it lists technical terms, symbols, abbreviations, diagram use, and information-heavy dense texts. For literature/arts, it outlines the use

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Unit 1.3.

Fundamentals of Reading Academic Texts

Lesson 3:
a. Language and Text Structure Across Discipline
i. Mathematic Texts
 Symbols in place of words
 Symbols for operations(+ x)
 Special meaning ‘x’ ‘y’ ‘z’
 Notations 5.6 x 10
 Numbers 1, 2, 3
 Formulas E=mc

 Special meanings
 (Statistics) universe

 Verb ‘is”
 3 is the square root of 9
 10 is less than 15
 5 is a prime number

 Problem-solution
 Question
 Answer to which you arrive at by doing any or several math operations

 Comparison and contrast


 Which is bigger/faster/cheaper?

ii. Business Texts


 Special vocabulary (jargon)
 Interest
 Compound nouns
 Bulk buying
 Conventions or established practices
 Form letters (memo) –
 Date
 Inside address
 Salutation
 Body
 Complimentary close
 Polite communication
 Modal expressions (may)
 Adverbs (kindly)
“Please let me know what your thoughts and suggestions are.” Problem-solution
 Cause-effect
 result

iii. Social Science Texts


 Jargon of specific disciplines
 Political science (executive branch)
 Economics (profit) –
 Sociology (social class)
 Psychology (depression)

 Graphs and tables

 The common text structure in


Social Science texts are : definition for
jargons, recount of a historical event,
cause and effect of economic situation
and comparison and contrast for
political matters.
iv. Natural Science Texts
 Technical terms
 Pressure
 Symbols
 CO
 Abbreviations
 Lb.
 Prefixes
 uni
 root words
 geo
 suffixes
 -ation
 Diagrams

 Drawings

 Information-heavy
“Each nucleus is packed with information coded in the form of a chemical called
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) and organized into groups called genes which are
arranged on thread-like structures, the chromosomes.”
 Slow reading for comprehension and retention of facts.

v. Literature and the Arts


 Content-specific terms or jargon
 Tone
 Connotative language – implicit meaning of a word like
 Snake
 Figures of speech
 Metaphor

 Work’s style
 Creativity weighs more than content
 No one-to-one correspondence
 We saw her duck.
 Violate language rules
 Ten thousand saw I at a glance
 Text structures under this are definition for literary terms, descriptions for fiction stories,
and cause effect which maybe in a form of recounts.

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