Structure of Academic Text/ Before, During and After Reading
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Here are my responses to the reading comprehension questions: - This study suggests that how we use social media like Twitter may depend on whether we are using a mobile device or computer. Being aware of this could help me understand differences in how I and others communicate on these platforms based on the device. It may also influence how companies approach marketing and messaging for different devices. - Personality likely influences how we choose to use technologies, but technologies can also shape our behaviors over time. Things like needing to be brief on mobile may encourage more direct/informal language. But core personality traits still drive our initial tendencies. It's a two-way relationship between person and tool. - This adds nuance to assumptions about Twitter users.
Structure of Academic Text/ Before, During and After Reading
- 2. EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC TEXTS 1. ARTICLES 2. CONFERENCE REPORTS 3. REVIEWS 4. THESIS/ DISSERTATIONS
- 3. ARTICLES • Published scholarly journals. This type of academic text offers results of research and development that can either impact the academic community or provide relevance to nation building.
- 4. CONFERENCE REPORTS • These are papers presented in scholastic conferences, and maybe revised as articles for possible publication in scholarly journals.
- 5. REVIEWS • These provide evaluation or reviews of works published in scholarly journals.
- 6. THESES/ DISSERTATIONS • These are personal researches written by a candidate for a college or university degree.
- 7. STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC TEXTS 1. Typically formal. 2. Clearly structured introduction. 3. Clearly structured body. 4. Clearly structured conclusion. 5. Information from credible source which in turn, properly cited. 6. Include list of references.
- 8. CONTENT AND STYLE OF ACADEMIC TEXTS 1. …state critical questions and issues. 2. …provide facts and evidence from credible source. 3. …use precise and accurate words. 4. …take an objective point-of-view. 5. …list references. 6. ..use hedging or cautious language to tone done claims.
- 9. READING GOALS/ PURPOSE OF READING 1. …to better understand an existing idea. 2. …to get ideas that can support a particular writing assignment. 3. …to gain more information. 4. …to identify gaps in existing studies. 5. …to connect new ideas to existing ones.
- 10. CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES 3 STAGES OF READING 1. BEFORE READING 2. DURING READING 3. AFTER READING
- 11. BEFORE READING Ask the following questions. 1. Why am I reading this text? 2. What information or pieces of information do I need? 3. What do I want to learn?
- 12. BEFORE READING • Determine which type of academic text you are reading. • Determine and establish your purpose for reading. • Identify the author’s purpose for writing. • Infer the main idea or argument of the text based on the title. • Identify your attitude towards the author and the text. • State what you already know and what you want to learn. • Determine the target audience. • Check the publication date for relevance. (5 year earlier) • Check the reference list while making sure and consider the correctness of formatting style. • Use a concept map or graphic organizer to note your existing ideas and knowledge on the topic.
- 13. Comprehension Drill Read the title of the following study by Murthy et. al. Based on the title, make an inference on the content or main idea of the study. (Write your inference/s on the board.) Do We Tweet Differently From Our Mobile Devices? A Study of Language Differences on Mobile and Web-Based Tweeter Platforms source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12176/pdf
- 14. DURING READING ANNOTATE IMPORTANT PART OF THE TEXT. • Write keywords/phrases in bullet form. • Write something on the page margin where important information is found. • Write a brief notes on the margin. • Write questions on the information you find confusing. • What you already know about the ideas. • Write limitations of the author’s arguments. • Write notes on the reliability of the text. • Comment on the author’s biases. • Identify the evidence or supporting arguments presented by the author and check their validity and relevance. • Identify the finding and note the appropriateness of the research method used.
- 15. DURING READING ANNOTATE IMPORTANT PART OF THE TEXT. • Use concept map or graphic organizers. • React on the arguments presented in the text. • Underline important words/phrases. • Underline or circle meanings or definitions. • Mark or highlight relevant/essential part of the text. • Use heading and transition words to identify relationships in the text. • Create a bank of unfamiliar/technical words. • Use context clues to define unfamiliar/technical words. • Determine the main idea. • Synthesize the author’s arguments at the end of the section/chapter.
- 16. Read the following excerpt from the conclusion of Dhiraj et al’s study. To understand the text better, apply any of the “During Reading” previously discussed. Given that the influence of mobile technologies on tweeting patterns has been understudied, we sought to bridge this gap by examining whether tweets from mobile and web-based sources differ significantly in their linguistic style. We studied 6 weeks of Tweeter spritzer stream data, containing 235 million tweets. We focused on the analysis of tweets by source – specifically mobile versus web-based sources by the time of day. This involved evaluating several categories or subsets in which mobile sources may be similar to or different from the we sources. We used word lists from social psychology to test for levels of egocentricity, gender style, emotional content, and the agency in both mobile and web tweets.
- 17. Ultimately, we found that mobile tweets are not only more egocentric in language than any other group, but that the ratio of egocentric to non-egocentric tweets is consistently greater for mobile tweets than from non-mobile sources. We did not find that mobile tweets were particularly gendered. Regardless of platform, tweets tendered to employ words traditionally associated as masculine. We did find that negative language is used more frequently by mobile users at any point of time, a finding that would benefit from further research. The ratio of negative to positive unigrams was also found to be consistently greater for mobile tweets than web tweets. Lastly, we did not find that mobile-based tweets are more agentic than web-based tweets. Rather, both platforms tended to employ language that was associated with communal behaviour.
- 19. AFTER READING • Reflect on what you learned. • React on some part through writing. • Discuss some parts with your teacher or classmate/s. • Link the main idea of the text to what you already know.
- 20. OTHER READING STRATEGIES SQ3R • SURVEY • QUESTION • READ • RECITE • REVIEW
- 21. SURVEY • Skim the text. • Check the headings, tables, diagrams, or figures presented in the text. • Read the first few and last sentence of the text to determine the key information. • Get a feel of the text.
- 22. QUESTION •Annotate the headings with your questions. •Develop questions on the types of the information you expect from the text.
- 23. READ • Look for answers to your questions as you read. • Stop and slow if the passage is not clear. • Make sure to proceed reading only when already understand the previous texts.
- 24. RECITE • Recount the main points of the text. • Recall by writing a summary or synthesize based on what you understand on the text. • Highlight or underline the important points you read.
- 25. REVIEW • After finishing the text, go back and re-read the questions you wrote and see if you can answer them; if not, refresh your memory. • Evaluate what you learned to ensure that you are convinced and satisfied with the information presented in the text.
- 26. Reading Comprehension Based on the information you learned from the conclusion of the study. Answer the following questions. • What do you think is the implication of this new study on how you use the Twitter or any SNS? Explain your answer. • Do you think one’s personality affects the use of technology? Or do you think technology affect’s one’s personality? Explain your answer. • How does this knowledge affect your notion about Twitter user? Discuss your idea.