Week 1-2
Describe two or three types of plagiarism detected by TurnitIn
CTRL-C, Find-Replace, 404, Remix, Aggregator, etc.
Discuss some types of academic genres
Written vs. spoken genres
Expert vs less expert genres
Graduate vs undergraduate genres
Explain general, academic and technical vocabulary resources discussed in Pecorary and Coxhead (2026)
General Vocabulary (West’s GSL)
Academic Vocabulary (Coxhead’s AWL vs. Gardner and Davies AVL)
Multi-Word Units
Technical Terminology
Corpus of Words (e.g., COCA)
Describe 2-3 of these miscellaneous concepts covered during week 1-4 sessions.
Corpus and data-driven learning
ESAP vs EGAP
ELF vs. EMI
Compare and contrast a monograph, a journal article and a chapter from edited volume
A journal article is a peer-reviewed publication in an academic journal.
A monograph is a book-length work on one topic written by one or group of authors.
An edited volume is a book that comprise of multiple chapters written by different authors.
Thienthong (2025) discusses various aspects of citations and the factors that impact on the use of reporting verbs in citations. Discuss some of those linguistic features with examples.
Reporting verb tense (past, perfect, present)
Citation form (integral vs. non-integral)
Subject animacy (human, non-human, general)
Definiteness (definite, indefinite, it)
Activity (research, discourse, cognition)
Number (single vs. multiple)
Describe two or three variations of academic discourse
- Variations in register
- Variations in spoken and written discourse
- Variations in disciplines
- Variations in genre
Explain Academic Integrity Policy of Webster University.
Plagiarism, Cheating, Fabrication, Misuse of AI, Close Collaboration violate academic integrity policy.
Describe Braj Kachru's contextualization of English language, and the scope of EAP.
Inner circle - Norm providing countries (EMT, ESL)
Outer circle - Norm developing countries (ESL)
Expanding circle - Norm dependent countries (EFL)
EAP is specialized sector of EAP which is part of ESP
Week 3 discusses the process of move analysis and expected structures in different academic genres. Identify moves and steps of the research article.
Moves for Research Article Abstract
Moves for Research Article Introduction
Moves for Research Article Literature Review
Moves for Research Article Methodology
Moves for Research Results and Discussion
Moves for Research Article Conclusion
Moves for Research Article Acknowledgement
Compare in-text citation, quotation and reference. When / Where / How do we use each?
In-text citation and quotation are used within a text; while citation is a parahprased statement, quotation is an original statement from a source without a change.
Reference is a full citation given at the end of a text.
Describe Hutchinson and Waters (1987) tree of ELT and explain the position of EAP in ELT