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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
Slide # 2 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW)
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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Academic Reading Literacy
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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Academic Reading Literacy
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 Reading Literacy
Academic sources
• General teaching textbooks
• Edited academic volumes
• Specialist academic books
• Academic journal articles / papers
• Academic conference proceedings
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Academic Reading Literacy
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
Slide # 12 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW)
Academic Reading LiteracyDifferent ways of reading
Intensive
Slide # 13 Student Diversity in Academic Writing (SDAW)
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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Academic Reading Literacy
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….