Assignment

Making Sense of Scholarly Journal Abstracts

Submitted by Dennis Isbell on April 1st, 2016

Short Description:

A brief two page handout on how to read abstracts for scholarly journals for lower division undergraduates in particular. Examples include one from social sciences and one from humanities.

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Learning Outcomes:

Evaluating Sources

Discipline:

Communication Studies English Liberal Studies

Information Literacy concepts:

Individual or Group:

Ability Level:

Undergraduate / Bachelors

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

First-year composition classes. Introduced when students were searching then selecting scholarly journal articles for their research paper assignments.

Suggested Citation:

Isbell, Dennis. "Making Sense of Scholarly Journal Abstracts." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2016. https://projectcora.org/assignment/making-sense-scholarly-journal-abstracts.

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Permalink Submitted by ccaffrey on July 6, 2016 - 3:08pm

Thanks for sharing! This was helpful in framing what are abstracts and how to dissect them for a linguistic anthropology class

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Carolyn Caffrey (ccaffrey)

I adapted this for a sophomore-level Linguistic Anthropology class analyzing article abstracts for an assignment. I provided students a modified handout focused just on the social science part with an example abstract from:
Sierra, S. (2016). Playing out loud: Videogame references as resources in friend interaction for managing frames, epistemics, and group identity. Language in Society, 45(2), 217-245.

Then students worked in small groups with example abstracts to go through the same highlighting process for research question/topic, methodology, and findings/conclusion. I had students do this in a Google Form: http://bit.ly/312armstrong

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