READING ACADEMIC TEXTS: A quick revision

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Question 1: What can help us to become effective readers? *

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Titles, subtitles, headings, pictures, captions that provide useful information for the understanding of a specific section of the text

Our background knowledge and expectations based on our personal experience and understanding of the topic

Predictions and expectations given from titles, subtitles, headings, pictures, captions and our own background knowledge

Question 2: When we say that we read for different aims, this implies that: *

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The main reading strategies must be skimming and scanning

The reading strategies we use are strictly related to our objectives

Extensive reading is the most adaptable and suitable to every situation

Question 3: What is the IMRAD structure? *

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It is a way to organise research papers and specifically scientific texts

It is a tool that helps to highlight the final results of an experiment

It is a way to improve your reading strategies of literary texts

Question 4: What are the main features of academic written texts about Arts & Humanities? *

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Authors use subordinate sentences, have a certain freedom to play with words, often using synonyms and follow a specific style

Authors use only plain sentences as the message needs to come across in the most objective and transparent way

Authors use the passive form mainly to emphasise the extensive research work they have done and highlight references

Question 5: What are the main features of academic written texts about Science and Technology? *

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Texts are structured in a way that subordinate sentences and passive forms are used to best describe the cause/effect phenomenon

Texts cannot be vague or generic and therefore syntactical complexity is highly recommended

Texts cannot be vague or generic, a very specific terminology is used and subordinate sentences are often replaced by coordinate ones

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