Academic Reading Literacy Slide # 1 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW) ADAPTED FROM...

Slide # 1 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW)

Academic Reading Literacy

ADAPTED FROM

Essential Academic Reading Literacy:

For Post-graduate Students in Business and Management Studies

Prof. Lucas D. Introna

Dr Niall Hayes

Lancaster University

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Academic Reading Literacy

WHY READ? • to discover the extent of the existing body of work on a topic;

• to learn in detail about some of these works;

• to act as a catalyst for ideas

(as a ‘thinking springboard’);

• to encounter different styles of academic writing so that you can decide how you would like to write yourself;

• to follow up interesting things you have heard about;

• ……………..

• ………………

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Why is reading literacy important?

• ‘Reading’ for a degree

• Reading and research

• Becoming a scholar within a discipline

• Managing your time

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Appreciating different reading sources

• Academic sources– Peer review and legitimacy

• The Professional press– Peer review and legitimacy

• Internet documents – Judging the legitimacy

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Academic sources

• General teaching textbooks

• Edited academic volumes

• Specialist academic books

• Academic journal articles / papers

• Academic conference proceedings

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Peer-review & academic publishing

• The academic journal publication process– Research project (results)– Writing of paper– Submit to academic journal– Reviewers

• Two or three expert peer reviewers• Editors (main and associate)

– Reject or revise based on evaluation and comments– Resubmit for further review (2 – 3 times)– Accept or reject – Published

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The professional press

Reviewed by editorsPractitioner discussion / issues

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Internet documents

• Google / Google Scholar

• Yahoo

• Judging the status of Internet documents

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Subject / discipline specific reading

• Reading leads to one becoming more expert in a particular domain.

• Subjects often have different perspectives and vocabularies.

• Subjects have differences in terms of the legitimacy of sources, e.g conferences over journal articles, books over journals.

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Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading

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Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading

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Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading

Intensive

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Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading

ExtensiveIntensive

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Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading

ExtensiveIntensive

NOT ALL LIKE THIS!

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Reading Strategies

Core sources

(In-depth)

Extendedsources

(Skim)

Peripheralsources(Scan)

All potentialsources

All academic reading has a focus and a

purpose

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Concluding comments

• Important to:– Identify and reflect upon existing experience– Practice those aspects of academic reading

literacy that you are not familiar with– This is an ongoing process as you become

more expert in a subject area.– Practice, practice, practice….