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Lesson Plan December 15, 2019

Reading Academic Articles

Submitted by Justin de la Cruz

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Martha Kruy

I've added the Read, Analyze, Contextualize slides to my slides about accessing literary criticism sources via CCSU's lit crit databases. I have also changed the article that I instructed the students to read/analyze/contextualize, and added some pointers about using gen AI in the context of taking notes about scholarly resources.

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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.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will learn how to quickly categorize academic articles based on content.
  2. Students will learn about three levels of engaging with an academic article — reading, analyzing, and contextualizing — and what to do during each step.
  3. Students will better understand how academic articles are written.
  4. Students will better understand how to read academic articles.

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de la Cruz, Justin. "Reading Academic Articles." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 2019. https://projectcora.org/lesson/reading-academic-articles
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