EAPP Outline Week 4
EAPP Outline Week 4
I. TITLE:
ANTICIPATORY:
DIRECTIONS: Try the passage below to see if you can pick out the main idea. Write
your answer on a sheet of paper together with the next activity that you are about to do at
the end of this outline.
"To many parents, the infant's crying may be mainly an irritation, especially if it
continues for long periods. But crying serves important functions for the child as well as
for the parents. For the child, crying helps improve lung capacity and the respiratory
system. Perhaps more important, the cry serves as a signal of distress. When babies cry,
they indicate that they are hungry or in pain, and this is important information for
parents."
1. BRAINSTORMING
When you responded with ideas and concepts related to the broad concept that your teacher gave
you, you were already generating possible topics for your paper. The activity aims to generate as many
topics as you can in 10 – 15 minutes so that these random topics can be made into a focused topic later
on.
Here are possible topics that you may generate out of the topic your teacher provided:
Double standards for women
Discrimination against gays and lesbians
Marital rape
Homosexuality
Gender bias and stereotypes
2. FREE WRITING
Aside from brainstorming, you can also use free writing to generate ideas. Free writing is similar
to brainstorming in that you just write any idea that comes to your mind. The catch is to put down into
writing the ideas that think of so that later on you will be able to generate ideas and narrow them down
into a single topic for your paper. For example, you want to write about gender bias and stereotypes,
which is still a very broad topic. You can free write and come up with something like this:
We are born to perform roles. As early as infancy, there are already stereotypes that are
associated with our sexes. For instance, the color pink is for baby girls and the color blue is for
baby boys. As boys and girls, there are again expectations – boys should play with toy guns or
trucks and girls should play with dolls or toy pans. How do these stereotypes affect the behavior
of girls and boys? Do they affect the behavior of men and women that those girls and boys
would eventually become? I supposed that stereotypes are the reasons that there is also a gender
bias and double standards. Because of these certain expectations, we are conditioned to think
that we are confined to our roles. Who determines these rules? Who says that we have to follow
them? Is there a punishment if we don’t follow those roles or the ones who impose them?
3. CLUSTERING
The other step that you did in the activity is called clustering or ballooning or mapping. This
technique provides a graphic representation of your ideas, allowing you to visualize the connections and
relationships of your ideas. Write your main topic at the center of your paper then circle or box it. Think
of subtopics and place them around the center circle until you feel that you have developed all the
subtopics fully.
V. Task:
Now your task is to use the steps in pre-writing for your own paper and write two (2)
written work using the steps in choosing a topic that you have read.
IV. Assignment:
Search what is the meaning of Plagiarism and get at least five (5) example of it. Write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
Reference:
Saqueton, G. M., & Uychoco MT. A. (2016). English For Academic And Professional
Purposes: A Glimpse at the World of Writing. Pp 3- 11.Quezon City: Rex Printing
Company, Inc.
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