Agenda A Quick Note on Research Questions Intro to Reading Academic Articles Work Time: Begin to Read an Academic Article Homework: Finish ANNOTATING your first academic article tonight; fill out the GRAPHIC ORGANIZER and CREATE AN AB ENTRY CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
A quick note on research questions.
Reading academic articles is hard.
Reading academic articles is hard. You will need to take good notes. You will need to take your time. You will need to annotate. You will need to re-read. You will need to read strategically.
You will need to take good notes. Every new article you starts goes into your Annotated Bibliography with full citation information.
You will need to take your time. Count on spending about an hour per article. Some you will skim briefly and decide they are not as relevant as you hoped. This process should take 10 minutes minimum. Some will be really useful at providing definitions, data, and further areas of research. These will take much more than an hour to unpack.
You will need to annotate. At a minimum, you will need to annotate for: definitions -- how does this academic source define central terms? argument -- what is the central claim? Write ARG next to places that you think you see the central claim. further research -- what ideas do you need to follow up on? What sources do you need to follow up on?
My annotations: --Authentic Literacy = do this outside the classroom; needs both a real writer (someone who is trying to give info) and a real reader (someone who actually wants the info) Needs to have authentic purpose (communicate ideas) and authentic text (looks like a real text that you’d find out in the world, e.g. a letter, an article in a newspaper, a novel)
You will need to re-read. Academic reading is not one-and-done. You will need to re-read immediately when you don’t understand after you finished the article to summarize & capture main points many times in the future as you define and develop your research
You will need to read strategically. Key sections: title, abstract, introduction, results, conclusion Look for definitions Look for arguments Look for points of entry: What is missing? What other questions can we ask? How can we apply this elsewhere?
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Go read. Now.