Assignment
Reading Academic Articles
Short Description:
A primer on how to read academic articles by guiding the class through a series of questions. Give students 5-15 minutes per slide to answer the questions (individually or in groups) before talking about their answers to questions with the whole class.
Relevant links:
6 Article types that journals publish: A guide for early career researchersStrategies for Reading Academic ArticlesLearning Outcomes:
- Students will learn how to quickly categorize academic articles based on content.
- Students will learn about three levels of engaging with an academic article — reading, analyzing, and contextualizing — and what to do during each step.
- Students will better understand how academic articles are written.
- Students will better understand how to read academic articles.
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Suggested Citation:
de la Cruz, Justin. "Reading Academic Articles." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/reading-academic-articles.All assignments contributed to this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike United States License