Academic Reading Literacy Slide # 1 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW) ADAPTED FROM Essential Academic Reading Literacy: For Post-graduate Students

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



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;

• ……………..

• ………………



Why is reading literacy important?

• ‘Reading’ for a degree

• Reading and research

• Becoming a scholar within a discipline

• Managing your time



Appreciating different reading sources

• Academic sources– Peer review and legitimacy

• The Professional press– Peer review and legitimacy

• Internet documents – Judging the legitimacy



Academic sources

• General teaching textbooks

• Edited academic volumes

• Specialist academic books

• Academic journal articles / papers

• Academic conference proceedings



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



The professional press

Reviewed by editorsPractitioner discussion / issues



Internet documents

• Google / Google Scholar

• Yahoo

• Judging the status of Internet documents



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.


Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading





Intensive



ExtensiveIntensive



ExtensiveIntensive

NOT ALL LIKE THIS!



Reading Strategies

Core sources

(In-depth)

Extendedsources

(Skim)

Peripheralsources(Scan)

All potentialsources

All academic reading has a focus and a

purpose



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….

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Academic Reading Literacy Slide # 1 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW) ADAPTED FROM Essential Academic Reading Literacy: For Post-graduate Students