Making Sense of Scholarly Journal Abstracts

I adapted this for a sophomore-level Linguistic Anthropology class analyzing article abstracts for an assignment. I provided students a modified handout focused just on the social science part with an example abstract from: Sierra, S. (2016). Playing out loud: Videogame references as resources in friend interaction for managing frames, epistemics, and group identity. Language in Society, 45(2), 217-245. Then students worked in small groups with example abstracts to go through the same highlighting process for research question/topic, methodology, and findings/conclusion. I had students do this in a Google Form: http://bit.ly/312armstrong