Write a brief evaluation of the reading "How to Read Academic Articles." Consider the effectiveness of the article in helping you to understand and read into academic conversations. From your experience in reading academic texts, what suggestions would you make to make the text more useful for beginning researchers?
After your evaluation, use the guide sections listed below to map the trajectory of one of your scholarly articles. Be concise and give enough detail within each category to demonstrate how the researcher makes the moves listed below:
Introduction
Indicating a Gap or Niche
Methods
Results/Discussion
In one final, brief section, deliver some tweaks to the methodology used by the researcher that could help to further explore the problem/question/issue being explored. What could be done differently to address the problem or issue being looked at?
Create a reference for your source at the bottom of the page. Your citation style should accurately reflect the discipline for which your study is associated.
* Note: this assignment can serve as a nice jumping off point for the interpretive summary assignment, which is due on Monday.
The article “How to Read Academic Articles” was really helpful to me by helping to break down articles in smaller chunks. Breaking down academic articles into smaller pieces helps make it less intimidating and easier to comprehend each part. The article also suggested that you should take your time when reading to fully understand what is being said, and keep a dictionary near by in case you encounter words you aren’t familiar with.
ReplyDeleteThe article that I chose is called “Mental Links to Enhanced Healing: An Exploratory Study.”
The Introduction to the article provides the reader with the intentions of the study, a brief outline of the survey and the participants’ injuries, a rough outline of the results including, the recovery time percentages and the related mental factors. Finally the introduction gave some history of similar studies that have happened in the past, explained what those studies are missing, and justified the need for this study on the effects of how one’s mental state can effect healing from an injury.
The gap that this author found in previous studies was that the main focus of research, in the past, “has been on the psychological precursors and effects of injury rather than on action related factors involved in the rehabilitation process.” This gap provided the researchers with the opportunity to look into the possibility that your mental state and resilience can play a major role in recovery from sports related injuries.
The method of research conducted was a survey on 32 athletes who had sustained either a Grade 2 ankle sprain, or a grade 2 MCL sprain. the survey was looking for links between mental capabilities and outlook and recovery time from the injury. Asking questions on the subjects of Attitude and Outlook, Stress and Stress Control, Social Support, Goal Setting, Positive Self-Talk, Mental Imagery, and Belief int heir capabilities of recovery and belief in mental contributions to recovery.
The results of the study found a distinct connection between a subjects mental state and their recovery time, with the patients who had a positive outlook, believed in the role of mentality in recovery, and a strong sense of being able to take control of their recovery having a recovery time of less than half that of pessimistic, non-believing people.
One change I would make to the methodology of this study is that I would find out the level of athlete that the subjects were, to look for a connection between how seriously they take their sport and their recovery time. This might help explain their level of motivation to get back the their top performance level as quickly as possible. Other changes I would make is conducting this study on a larger sample, and I would ask questions about religious beliefs to see if there might be an underlying mental connection between their faith, or lack there of, and their recovery time.
Works Cited
Ievleva, Lydia, and Terry Orlick. "Mental Links To Enhanced Healing: An Exploratory Study." Sport Psychologist 5.1 (1991): 25-40. SPORTDiscus. Web. 7 Feb. 2016.
In reading "How to Read Academic Articles" I have been enlightened to a structural form to wish I can classify scholarly articles and academic journals. Understanding a form to scholarly articles can help me derive purpose and motives from authors more effectively and timely. It helped me understand introduction material better, as a writer must address a conversation before he/she enters the conversation, and that an author will never simply summarize previous claims in the argument. If I were to add on to the article for a less experienced researcher, I would say never read specifically for information you are looking for. Ideas will develop on their own from research as to what to add to an argument.
ReplyDeleteThe article I will be defining structurally will be "Upholding Standards: A Realist Ontology of Standard Form Jazz."
For an introduction, or an entry to the conversation, the author starts with comparing and contrasting the performance qualities of jazz tunes versus classical songs. This develops the idea of what the author is addressing in the mind of anyone who may not be familiar with the field in the audience.
The author then proceeds to talk about the form of standard jazz tunes. This topic begins to be stressed in the article, with the author raising a controversial question of how to play standards. This is the indicating gap or niche of the article. This is evident when the author talks of viewing a performance where a pianists claimed to play "All of me" but never played one note of the known melody. It raises the question of "how much liberty should a musician take with adding their artistic touch on classic melodies.
The method used to add to this conversation is backed in research into performances, interviews, and documents from acclaimed musicians. One concrete example of this is the authors relation to tunes that have never been recorded by their composers. For example, the tune "sophisticated lady," is claimed by the author to not have a real form, for the person who composed it never recorded it, and played it differently upon each performance.
Towards the later half of the article, the author concludes that taking an individual artistic approach to a commonly known jazz tune, is not disrespectful to the composer, as that is most likely what they had intended. "The point is not that any jazz performance of a given standard is as authentic as any other; it is that a jazz per- formance’s departure from maximal authenticity does not thereby count against it." (Dodd 281). This conclusion is now a claim, backed in research that has been added to the argument.
I believe that the author of the article could have improved his argument by addressing more interviews from the jazz greats. For instance, Thelonious Monk, an accomplished pianist mentioned frequently in the article, has discussed the artistic process in jazz music on many occasions, once famously in an interview, in which he compared the approaches of tunes as dreams. I think the author missed possible information that could have provided more proof for his argument.
Works Cited.
Dodd, Julian. "Upholding Standards: A Realist Ontology Of Standard Form Jazz." Journal Of Aesthetics & Art Criticism 72.3 (2014). Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2016.
In the reading “How to Read Academic Articles” I learned a lot on how to more effectively read and really comprehend the ideas that the writer is trying to present. This article explains how each writer writes in a way that caters to their audience. Therefore, when a writer is writing a scholarly article they are going to write in a more intelligent way to reach their target audience. For example, the articles that I have been reading are all dealing with communication disorders so they all contain medical terms that may be challenging to understand if you are not familiar with the subject. This article then goes into detail of the four parts that you can break your article down into to better help you understand whatever academic article you are reading. The four parts (intro, locating a gap or niche, methodology, and results) really help any reader who may be having trouble trying to make sense of a challenging article they are trying to read. These steps help one to take a rather difficult read and break it down into four separate parts that when looked at and studied individually help to make sense of the writer’s whole idea.
ReplyDeleteThe scholarly article I chose is “Code Mixing in a Young Bilingual Child.”
In the introduction the writer gives statistics about how diverse the United States is and how a lot of the population identifies and Hispanic or non-English speaking. He writes about how speech language pathologists (SLP’s) often have to work with children who come from non-English speaking homes and how difficult it may be to overcome that bilingual communication barrier.
After presenting his statistics for Spanish speaking families in the U.S the writer begins to present the gap he found. His gap is that many children use a strategy called “code switching” (which is basically when a child speaks Spanglish) and while most SLP’s think of that as a language deficiency it can actually be used to further improve a child’s speech. This made sense to me because coming from a family that predominately speaks Spanish I have seen my nephew struggle with English, however once my family began using code switching he quickly picked up on English words and eventually became fully bilingual.
The method of research used by the writer was a case study. They took a bilingual child who spoke both English and Spanish and studied her interactions with her Spanish speaking family from the age of 6 years 7 months to the age of 8 years old. During the study they taped regular conversations the girl had with her family and sister and had a professional come in and transcribe everything she said including her use of code switching.
The results proved that contrary to some SLP’s belief, code switching is in fact not a language deficiency because based on the transcription everything the child was saying made sense. Her use of “Spanglish” was correct for example, if she would say “voy a sell” it transcribes correctly to “I am going to sell.” That strategy of code switching is what helped the child learn both languages so efficiently and if understood and used properly by SLP’s it could really become an asset.
One change I would make to the methodology is to broaden the research and look into if the use of code switching is also beneficial to multiple languages such as French. I think it would be interesting to see if the mixed use of French and English would still help children who are being brought up in bilingual homes with languages other than Spanish.
Works cited
Brice, A., and R. Anderson. "Code Mixing in a Young Bilingual Child." Communication Disorders Quarterly 21.1 (1999): 17-22. Web.
I thought the article, "How to read academic articles", actually was really useful and had a lot of great points. Reading academic articles I thought was just tough for me, but after reading this I can see that they cause a lot of people problems. One really good point I thought the author made in the article was showing how articles are broken down. The next articles I read I will see if I can see the author going out of the intro and into his/her methodology. Another thing that I thought was a good point is taking it slow when reading so you can actually understand what the author is talking about. Also, while reading articles writing notes and ideas that come to mind would really benefit the reader. My advice to beginners would be to take it slow and write notes to help further understand it.
ReplyDeleteIn the introduction the author gave some background information about cannabis as a medicine, and then relates to previous studies with concrete information on cannabis as medicine.
The gap the author found was to study the perception of cannabis as a medicine, not just what the affects of the medicine are. He also already had an experiment ready to go to help get results.
The method of research was a study on 23 individuals that were using cannabis as medication for a wide range of different medical problems. They took part in semi-structured interviews and were questioned about what they thought about medical cannabis users. Then transcribed data was analyzed to develop themes on what people think.
The results were that the participants saw cannabis negatively as a recreational drug but though it was suitable for medical purposes. Also, a main reason it was seen so negatively is because of laws against cannabis that could result in jail time.
I think the only thing the researcher could have done differently was to find participants that were non-cannabis users. Also I thought that 23 participants isn't really a sufficient amount to find out what the larger population thinks. I think the researcher should instead of interviews create a survey so that he could get much more feedback with a lot more participants.
Bottorff, Joan L et al. “Perceptions of Cannabis as a Stigmatized Medicine: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.” Harm Reduction Journal 10 (2013): 2. PMC. Web. 8 Feb. 2016.
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ReplyDelete“How to Read Academic Articles” gave a great break down of academic articles. When reading them myself I tend to get overwhelmed by excessive information. This article broke them down into categories that I had barely noticed myself. Not only did I gain insight on reading an article but also on writing one myself.
ReplyDeleteExciting red and competent blue: the importance of color in marketing.
Introduction: In the introduction the author explains the role color can play in the market place. They give a few examples of well known brands and the colors they are associated with. The introduction is split in two because the gap is introduced in the 4th paragraph of the paper. After the gap is addressed similar studies are referenced and some background information is given on colors and brand personality.
Indicating a Gap or Niche: The article mentions that despite color’s important role in branding that few studies have been conducted on how color shapes consumer perceptions. Existing studies on this subject are insufficient.
Methods: Unlike most studies this one conducted four experiments instead of one because color includes hue, saturation and value. The first experiment involved fake logos with different hues. Participants were asked to evaluate the logo’s personality based only on the logo itself.
The second experiment was similar to the first but the logos had different saturation and values. In the third experiment a fake brand of condoms was created for a product and its packaging was presented one of two different colors. Participants were asked if they would trust and buy the product. In the fourth experiment 3 groups were each shown a logo. Each group’s logo contained a little more color than the first. They were asked to also evaluate the brand’s personality.
Methods/Discussion: The results from all 4 studies support the hypothesis that color influences brand personality.
This paper was very well written and thought out. It was a little hard to read though since four experiments were conducted. If was cut down to two the study would be able to reach a broader audience and would have sounded less repetitive.
Work Cited: Labrecque, Lauren, and George Milne. "Exciting Red And Competent Blue: The Importance Of Color In Marketing." Journal Of The Academy Of Marketing Science 40.5 (2012): 711-727. Business Source Premier. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.
This article helped me understand that I am not the only one who struggles to read academic journals at times. They are comprehensive and overly diligent in the wording of their text. At times I feel lost if I do not fully understand what the author is saying. However, I do find that the more I read them and the more I break them down, the easier they appear to read.
ReplyDeleteIntroduction: Within the Introduction, the author notes previous studies that have proven and disproven classical music being a positive influence on memory retention. This sets the paper up for further conversation about those studies and then highlights the author’s main points about his research.
Locating a gap or niche: The author points out that in “olson’s” study, he doesn’t notice that the music that was chosen may have been the issue. By choosing a more distracting background noise, his results were negative. The author then further goes on to explain how this affected the research article and added to the conversation with what he thought was missing.
Methodology: The author includes many of olson’s studies and others as well. He adds statistical analysis of each case study and examines how some contradict others. The independent variables were usually very different in each study. By finding studies that turn out with different conclusions each time it is easy to find a missing trend of consistency of music choice.
Results: The fact that the author used many different studies that encompassed gender comparisons, music comparisons, advertisement comparisons, volume comparisons, and duration of music playing give the overall paper a much broader approach. The author had a lot of room to find a consistent trend and in his results he found that calming music was much more successful with low volume than anything else researched. Some people simply don’t enjoy listening to music while studying, which puts them as outliers, but the majority lies along this thin line.
Sulicki, Nick. "Mozart Effect: A Class Study on the Effects of Music on Memory." Mozart Effect: A Class Study on the Effects of Music on Memory. Fordham University, n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.
“How to Read Academic Articles” seems to be directed towards college students who are having trouble reading complex scholarly articles. This informative paper gives helpful insight, reminding the reader to be patient, keep a dictionary handy, and read slow when reading difficult texts. Furthermore, the article outlines scholarly articles by separating them into four parts: introduction, location a gap or niche, methodology, and results. By keeping these four parts in mind, it makes it easier to read the article is a more organized and flowing way.
ReplyDeleteLike any academic article, “Major Decisions: Motivations for Selecting a Major, Satisfaction, and Belonging” can also be split up into the four parts described in “How to Read Academic Articles”. In the first paragraph, the rhetors cite other scholars who have completed similar research as them in the past. They mention two other studies that focus on factors that influence students’ choice of college majors.
After noting similar research that has been done, Soria and Stebleton point out that “little research has been conducted on whether students’ motivations for academic major selection are related to subsequent outcomes” (1). This is the gap or niche that is explained in “How to Read Academic Articles”. Soria and Stebleton will then fill in and elaborate on the missing information, which is the relationship between academic major and students’ satisfaction and sense of belonging on campus.
Surveys were used as the methodology for this research study. All undergraduate Spring 2009 students attending SERU were asked to take a web-based questionnaire with questions focusing on time use, evaluation of a student’s major, campus climate, and satisfaction.
Based on the information received from the students’ surveys, a table was made, showing the frequency of demographic variables. The final result stated that “students who selected their majors because of intrinsic motivations were more likely to be satisfied with their university experiences. The final page of the article has a header labeled “Discussion” that addresses the loose ends and concludes with why the study matters.
Although I believe the researchers’ methodology was very well done, I would sampled a larger population to make it even stronger. Freshman and sophomores of a particular research college were selected for this study. However, I think sampling underclassmen from multiple different colleges may have benefited the study even more.
Soria, Krista M., and Michael Stebleton. "Major Decisions: Motivations for Selecting a Major, Satisfaction, and Belonging." NACADA Journal 33 (2013): n. pag. NACADA Journal. Web. 1 Feb. 2016.
"How to Read Academic Articles" taught me a simpler way to understand academic articles. The author’s use of numerous examples and also assisted in making the concepts easier to comprehend. The writer managed to create an easy to follow structure for all academic journals. I also agreed with the suggestion to make notations when specific aspects of an article are too complex. One suggestion I would give that isn’t already stated in the article, would be to do some background reading on the subject in general. That will make difficult concepts easier to understand.
ReplyDeleteI chose the article "Masculinity In The Doctor's Office: Masculinity, Gendered Doctor Preference And Doctor–Patient Communication."
The introduction to the article describes studies that illustrate how masculinity affects patient-physician relationships. The author mentions specific research that highlights the fact that men statistically are more likely to die from chronic disease than woman and that they generally exhibit less help-seeking behaviors. This in turn makes men less likely to report any signs of illness and less likely to seek professional care.
The article clearly states the gap in the literature, a potential cause for the masculinity related communication issues. This potential cause is gender bias. Men usually pick male physicians, due to the bias that women are less competent than men in term of science and math. This bias leads to the conclusion that men are even less likely to report symptoms and seek care because they fear being emasculated around other men, even if that man is their doctor.
The method used was an online survey, which was advertised as a study on healthcare dynamics for men. It asked masculinity based health questions and recorded doctor preferences and gender bias, and also included attention checks and demographic questions.
The results showed that masculinity does play a role in communication, men that scored higher masculinities also reported less consistent symptoms to their physicians. This could have severe effects on the level of care a patient receives. The study emphasizes how important communication between a doctor and their patient is.
The methodology used by the researcher was too simple, I think an addition of physician interviews might expand the argument better and reveal more about gender bias and masculinity.
Works Cited.
Himmelstein, Mary S., and Diana T. Sanchez. "Masculinity In The Doctor's Office: Masculinity, Gendered Doctor Preference And Doctor–Patient Communication." Preventive Medicine 84.(2016): 34-40. ScienceDirect. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.
“How to Read Academic Articles” explains that academic articles may be hard to read at first. The vocabulary is advanced, it is new, you wont understand. The article recommends breaking the academic academic article down into pieces and going over each separately.
ReplyDelete"The Dynamics of Intergenerational Family Abuse: A Focus on Child Maltreatment and Violence and Abuse in Intimate Relationships."
Intoduction: The article begins by opening up with the idea “violence begets violence”. It explains the purpose, seeing if the statement is actually true.
Gap: The author mentions that there could be other reasons adults turn to violence and it is not because of a genetic link.
Methodology: The article reviews other articles that have been conducted on the same subject and comes to a final result.
Results: the three main reasons may be: violence is genetic, it is learned from parents or, a violent childhood leads a child to later have traits that allow them to stay in violent relationship
Abramovaite, J., S. Bandyopadhyay, and L. Dixon. "The Dynamics of Intergenerational Family Abuse: A Focus on Child Maltreatment and Violence and Abuse in Intimate Relationships." Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 27.2 (2015): 160-74. Web.
The reading "How to Read Academic Articles." was actually helpful in breaking down academic article. It was a brief article, but concise, and i felt that it really helped the article from dragging on to the point where it lost my attention, and therefore I retained the information in the article. I would say that the only thing they could have done to make it better for beginners is go into a little more detail into some of the bullet points they made, but not to a point where they drag on.
ReplyDeleteI chose a Masters thesis by the name of "Video Games As a Spectator Sport"
The article in its introduction provides a brief definition of what an e-sport is and a definition of what spectatorship is. They then go on to talk about his purpose and how e-sports is developing more ways to view it.
The gap to this article is that it does describe how a game like League of Legends is constantly changing the ways players can view matches and thus, become better. however, they only discuss how only League of Legends is changing spectatorship. They don't go into other games and their various forms spectorship.
The methods the author uses is using examples of certain games and services such as twitch do describe the evolution of viewing competitive gaming from its early years to today.
The results of the article provides a very well-thought-out thesis on the evolution of competitive gaming and the way people view it. it also points out very unique aspects of viewing the sport and how it compares to other "traditional" sports. As aid before I think that exploring other games and other platforms for viewing video games such as YouTube could have really reinforced the point the author was getting at.
Works cited: Ditmarsch, Joerik van. VIDEO GAMES AS A SPECTATOR SPORT. Thesis. Utrecht, Netherlands, 2013. Document.
After reading the article "How to Read Academic Articles," I have attained a new skill set which allows me to break down articles into separate parts in order to organize and understand them better. This will certainly help to simplify the wealth of information that these academic articles contain into concise, easy to understand categories. It also helps, as mentioned in the article to slow down your reading in order to comprehend the information better. I have found this incredibly useful as I tend to resort to skimming the information especially if it gets boring. As such I would definitely recommend that beginners do this in order to absorb maximum information from their readings.
ReplyDeleteThe article "Issues and Risks Associated with Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin" is introduced by a brief yet descriptive summary of Bitcoin and some of its features and then closes by stating the different sections contained within the article.
The gap occurs after the researchers present the primary facts about bitcoin and begin to look at ways in which bitcoin's system has been exploited for its various characteristics to be used for criminal purposes. The researchers lay out various different ways in which bitcoin is utilized illegally and the various problems they cause.
The researcher's methodology simply includes utilizing a variety of graphs, tables, and know facts about bitcoin to come to conclusions on its distinct characteristics and note its inherent issues.
In conclusion the researchers have found that while bitcoin is a very effective and revolutionary crypto-currency, it has some inherent flaws which are commonly exploited for illegal purposes.
I believe that the researchers used a fairly effective methodology, yet could of included more primary sources and different outlooks on the currency such as from a regulatory standpoint. Overall however the article is well structured and full of factual information on Bitcoin.
Brezo, Félix, and Pablo G. Bringas. "Issues and risks associated with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin." (2012). Web. 3 Feb. 2016.
I think this article makes you read into the article deeper than I would have before reading it. It tells you to connect the introduction to your own life experience. The “How to read Academic Articles” taught me how to better understand an article. Splitting an article into the 4 points: introduction, finding a gap, methods, and results really helps to understand what you are reading. I honestly think this article was very helpful.
ReplyDeleteMy article for my paper is “Positive Effects of Parental Divorce on Undergraduates.” The paper’s introduction is not really like how “How to Read Academic Articles” described. The gap is their opposition to the typical article on divorce. Most articles talk about how divorce is negative. The method of this article was surveys that they handed out to students. The results were that undergraduates were actually positively affected by their parents’ divorce.
The article I read could improve by surveying a wider group of people. They also could ask more questions about grades and mental affects instead of just relationships with parents and siblings.
Halligan, Caitlin, I. Joyce Chang, and David Knox. "Positive Effects of Parental Divorce on Undergraduates." Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 55.7 (2014): 557-67. Web.
ReplyDelete“How to Read Academic Articles” extremely informative and helpful. The beginning explained how and why academic articles are so hard to understand, and that right off the bat not only made me feel better about struggling with reading academic articles in the past, but also furthered my understanding of them. Now that I understand that each article is written differently based off who the target audience is, usually experts in a certain field, I can more confidently look into an article and break it down into smaller parts. For beginning researchers I would definitely slow down and look things up as often as you can and write summaries of complex ideas that are being told in the article.
ReplyDeleteThe article I chose was “Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty”.
In the Introduction, the researchers begin by pointing out that although much research has been done about the topic, a solution or perfect understanding has not yet been created. They go on to explain why there is so much dispute about this topic and break it down into three main reasons: one, most studies use income distribution rather than wealth distribution because there is more data about incomes, two, some literature has been ignored in the past when researching income inequality and economic growth, and third, an important study by Ravallion (2012) casts doubt in this studies’ eyes. The study does address all issues in these three points and even adds on to new evidence with the last. The introduction lastly goes into further detail on their methodologies of their study and how it compares with past studies. This Introduction truly begins their own conversation on this specific subject and reference many past studies and researchers.
The gap that this researcher has found is of mostly critiquing past literature on the subject and pointing out their biases – in this paper they will try to not have biases or at least not have the same ones. Some of their results do end up differing from other studies such as Forbes (2000), but, they point out the reasons that they may have had different results, mostly from doing the research differently.
The Methods are of a data approach and an empirical approach. The data approach is to find what creates wealth inequality. They did this by using Forbes magazine’s annual listings of billionaires, then split the billionaires up by where they are from and location of their business activities. Instead of taking into account all distribution of wealth they just use the top numbers, the wealthiest individuals, because they noticed that in the past years the concentration of wealth has risen to the top. They also classified each billionaire into two categories, whether they benefited from political contributions or whether they did not. This is a key factor because in every country the amount of political power a businessman has differs. They use many other databases for things such as income inequality and initial poverty numbers. The empirical approach relies heavily on past literature.
ReplyDeleteThe Results showed that wealth inequality negatively effects economic growth, income inequality can have both positive and negative effects, and poverty does not affect economic growth at all. These findings do bump heads with the Forbes (2000) study. In the Discussion they discuss why and how, and if the difference really does matter. Also, two specific countries showed that politically gained wealth does have a huge effect on the country’s growth. In conclusion, distribution of wealth is more important than income distribution which is the opposite of what was thought in the Introduction.
I believe the researcher organized their article kind of strangely. There was no clear methods section because it was spread into many different categories. I believe they did an amazing job researching past literature and truly understanding their subject. They possibly could have talked to actual politicians or surveyed politicians and average citizens to gain insight on how they think differently.
"Does Wealth Inequality Matter For Growth? The Effect Of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, And Poverty." (2013): OAIster. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
The tips mentioned in the reading "How to Read Academic Articles" are very useful when breaking down an article to understand the writer's point better. It helps you understand how to locate the main ideas and what the point of an article is. Sometimes it can be difficult to understand the writers view on a topic, or what their purpose is, and this article helps you break down other readings to maximize your understanding. In the article I picked for my interpretive summary, the author explains what the topic is before getting too deep into it, in the case that someone who is reading it doesn't have much background information about the topic being discussed. I found after this reading that the author from "Going Dark: Terrorism on the Dark Web" there is one main gap; the author doesn't really give enough information about research on why terrorists in the Deep Web can't be stopped, which I believe is very important for the topic he is discussing.
ReplyDeleteWhile Weimann shows that he did an extensive research on terrorism in the dark web, the missing information on why it can't be stopped is still a big part of it. If I were to make any changes on his article, it would definitely be adding the research behind why terrorism on the Deep Web can't be stopped and how this is such an important thing regarding safety worldwide.
Weimann, Gabriel. "Studies in Conflict & Terrorism." Going Dark: Terrorism on the Dark Web 39.3 (2016): 195-206. Web.
Weimann, Gabriel. "Studies in Conflict & Terrorism." Going Dark: Terrorism on the Dark Web 39.3 (2016): 195-206. Web.
“How to Read Academic Articles” did a really good job at breaking down the structure most articles have and splitting it into most commonly used sections. After which the author did a broke down each section to highlight the major points that most academic writers should hit in each section. This allows me as the reader to gain a better understanding of the type of information will be presented in each section and be able to process it in a manner that is best fitting for the research I may be doing.
ReplyDeleteThe article I chose to analyze is called “Cannabis and Anxiety and Depression in Young Adults : A Large Prospective Study”
Introduction
In the introduction the writers of this piece kind of give an idea of what they were going to be researching, which in the case is the association between use of cannabis and anxiety and depression. They break up their study into three different models and give a bit of background information on where they did their research before interviews to get a hypothesis.
Locating a Gap or Niche
The writers did this rather quickly and included it in the introduction to the article. Overall they were looking for more evidence the on whether use of cannabis at an early stage in adolescence and the frequency of use increases the chances of developing anxiety and/or depression at onset adulthood. They determined that there a lack of evidence in this specific area of the subject and decided to do more research on it.
Methods
For this section the writers used a few different means to gather information, one of which was reading other article in the same subject to gain background knowledge. Another method they used to gather information used were Interview. They did interview with their subject at different stages in their lives. First they did interview with the mothers of the adolescences they were going to be interviewing at 3 to 5 day after being born (the mother child of course), then again at 6 months of age, 5 years, and 14 years of age. They then interviewed the children at 14 years of age and then again at what they considered to be the start of adulthood (21 years of age). They also did surveys to gain understanding of frequency of use and a lot of other factors that can play a big role in anxiety and depression at onset adulthood.
Results/Discussions
The writers decided to break these into two sections. One (results) identifies all of the statistical results of their study, the other (discussion) takes all of the results that they found and analyzed it in a way to determine how they fit into the three models of research they conducted and what it meant. For example in one of the model they found inconsistent data which helped them realize that there wasn’t a direct connection with anxiety and depression leading to cannabis use, but in a different model they found info that supported their hypothesis.