BSED 3 English
ACTIVITY
A. Write “TW” if the statement or example refers Technical Writing; “CW” if it refers to
Creative Writing.
CW 1. Before writing a new story, begin by asking the 5W’s and 1H.
CW 2. Education is the movement from darkness to light (Allan Bloom).
TW 3. Of the ten largest shopping malls in the world, three are found in the Philippines.
TW 4. This is to request payment for your bill amounting to Php 150.00.
TW 5. Social Engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker’s, toolkit, and for the
most successful hackers it reaches 90% or more (John MacAfee).
TW 6. Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas,
testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly (James Dyson).
CW 7. Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all (John F. Kennedy).
TW 8. Food is everything that we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, your personal
history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s separated from those from the
get-go (Anthony Bourdain ).
CW 9. Anything is good if it is made of chocolate (Jo Brand).
TW 10. Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food
on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie. (Michael Greger).
B. Let us discuss some ideas by answering the following questions. Explain and/or give
examples.
1. What other types of writing would be considered under technical writing?
2. What other considerations can you give before writing a technical paper?
3. Are there other properties of writing that you can add to make a technical writer an
effective one?
None
4. Aside from the purposes given about technical writing, can you think of other purposes
which we can add to the list?
To endorse
5. Are you more inclined in technical writing or creative writing?
I think I am more inclined in technical writing because we all know that technical
writing follows certain rules and format so that I can easily do and write a letter or
something.
REINFORCEMENT
Interview a teacher, an engineer, a businessman or any three professionals of your choice
about their experience in writing a technical paper. Ask what their strengths and weaknesses are
in writing technical papers. Also ask the value of technical writing in their profesion.
I write technical paper most of the time in school. It is tedious to write because it requires
a wide range of knowledge on grammar, vocabulary and other language mechanics. It follows
certain rules and format. As an English language teacher, somehow I am equipped with the
command of the English language such as grammar rules, format and others. But sometimes, I
mix up technical writing with creative writing. Technical writing plays important role in
communication in business and even in the world of teaching. I also teach technical writing to
students.
EVALUATION
Determine whether the following statements are true or false.
true 1. Subject and expression are properties of technical writing.
true 2. It is important for a technical writer to take note of the attractiveness of his paper.
true 3. Writers have different writing styles.
false 4. Technical writers can be creative when writing technical reports.
false 5. Technical writing is all about technical jobs.
true 6. One purpose of technical writing is that it gives instructions.
false 7. A business letter and a monograph are types of technical writing.
false 8. A sales letters is an example of a creative work.
true 9. Graphic aids are often used in creative writing rather than in technical writing.
false 10. The language of technical writing is simple, concrete, and familiar.
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BSED 3 English
ACTIVITY
Read the passages below. On a clean sheet of paper, identify its subject, audience,
purpose, style, arrangement of materials, and kind of technical literature in tabular form.
Passage 1
Subject Audience Purpose Style Arrangement Kind of
of materials technical
literature
View of Student To inform Academic Logical
language
Passage 2
Subject Audience Purpose Style Arrangement Kind of
of materials technical
literature
REINFORCEMENT
Reflect on the following situations. What will you do if you are faced with any one of
them?
1. You are the boss of a company. You received a report about missing milk boxes in the
shipment from one of your employees who made an inventory. Your company ordered
150 boxes, but two boxes were missing.
I will report it to the company who ship our orders that there is 2 boxes of milk
were missing and also I will re- check the inventory.
2. You are in a hurry to submit the proposal for a very important meeting. However, your
fellow employee who is the main proponent forgot to sign the proposal. It is 2:50 PM and
the paper has to be submitted by 3:00PM. What will you do?
I will apologize because my fellow employee forgot to sign the proposal so that
I’ll return again the paper and I will be late by submitting it.
3. An attendance sheet is being passed around in the seminar room. You were asked to write
your purpose for attending because it is about professional development. What will you
write?
If I were asked to write my purpose for attending the seminar I will write to gain
credit and knowledge because we all know that as a professional we need the
knowledge and credit so that we can teach and applied it to our work.
EVALUATION
Below are ethical considerations in writing technical papers, some however are opposite
practices. Underline all the ethical practices.
Abide by the appropriate corporate or professional code of conduct
Tell the truth
Avoid discriminatory language
Make false implications
Exaggerate
Use euphemisms
Mislead your reader
Be clear
Acknowledge assistance from others
Abide by relevant laws
BSED 3 English
DISCUSSION POINTS
1. How does common sense differ from research?
2. What are the different sources of knowledge?
Knowledge as belief
Knowledge as authority
A priori knowledge
Empirical knowledge
3. Discuss how the three kinds of research contribute to further understanding and
knowledge of language acquisition and learning phenomena?
4. Think of a linguistic theory that might have influenced the development of methods
of language teaching.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
1. Get a list of at least 20 language research titles in the library and classify them as
basic/theoretical, applied or practical research. Justify your classifications.
2. Select and read three journal articles on language acquisition and/or learning research.
Identify the types of knowledge illustrated in these studies.
3. Based on your readings on studies about language acquisition and learning, cite a
linguistic theory and discuss how the three kinds of research interact.
4. From which of the four different types of sources
(a) Knowledge as belief,
(b) Knowledge as authority,
(c) A priori knowledge, and
(d) Empirical knowledge (Seliger and Shohamy)
Were the following research topics/concerns/titles obtained?
a. Competence of Language teachers in teaching Syntax, phonology,
Morphology and Semantics
b. The study of how utterances are used in communicative acts, by intermediate
pupils and the role played by context and non-linguistic knowledge in the
transmission of meaning
c. Non-linguistic factors affecting students’ communicative competence
d. A Diachronic Study of the development of linguistic ability in individuals: Its
Impact on the acquisition of language in childhood
e. The study of the cognitive processes and representations underlying language
use of children
f. The Lexical Communicative Competence of English majors
g. The study of linguistic factors that place a discourse in context: An Analysis
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DISCUSSION POINTS
1. How different is language research from other kinds of researches? Why is it a
complex process?
2. What constitute a language research paradigm? How do the parameters of the
research relate to one another?
3. Differentiate general from specific approaches: hypothesis-generating from
hypothesis-testing objectives.
4. What constitutes a language research data? What are the common tools for gathering
language data?
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
1. Get a language study and identify its four parameters. Explain your answers.
2. Select a topic and outline a plan for it identifying the four parameters.
BSED 3 English
TASK 1
Look for a short story. Get an excerpt from the story and explain how the levels of
language were used in every sentence. (Minimum of 20 sentences)
TASK 2
Write 20 sentences that follow the SPCA pattern. Label each pattern sentence. All
sentences must focus on the current situations that we are experiencing right now.
