Article summary
Reading Empirical Journal Articles
Session 6
Overview
Techniques for reading a journal article
Techniques for reading a journal article
As journal articles are a major source for your thesis, you will need to know how to read these important pieces of literature.
Shon(2012) offers techniques for reading journal articles critically whilst managing the amount of information collected.
It uses fourteen acronyms
Techniques for reading a journal article
Shon’s techniques for reading journal articles
Techniques for reading a journal article
Shon’s techniques for reading journal articles
Techniques for reading a journal article
Shon’s techniques for reading journal articles
Techniques for reading a journal article
Shon’s techniques for reading journal articles
The table was adopted from : http://www.brad.ac.uk/academic-skills
Practical/Tutorial session
Read the abstract and the introduction sections of the journal article you brought to class and use Shon(2012)’s coding scheme to code these sections of the article.
Highlight each of the portions you code and insert or jot down the appropriate code next to the passages within the article.
Share your codes with the class.
Lecturer discusses key issues
Next week
Bring your laptop to class . Make sure you have installed PowerPoint application.