Today’s Plan:
- Syllabus
- Article Overview
- Homework
Syllabus
Choose Your Own Adventure
Here’s the list of articles:
- Bees Crucial to Many Crops Still Dying at Worrisome Rate (Sustainability)
- Men Resist Green Behavior as Unmanly (Behavior and Society)
- Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters on Climate Change (Climate)
- The End of Night: Global Illumination Has Increased Worldwide (Public Health)
- Is there a Female Brain? Library link
- As Frankenstein Turns 200, Can We Control Our Modern “Monsters”? (Computing)
- Underestimating After-School STEM Is for the Birds
- Stress Training for Cops’ Brains Could Reduce Suspect Shootings (Behavoir and Society)
- Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists (Cross Check)
- Consistently Lower Cancer Survival Rates for Black Patients in U.S. (Public Health)
Three sentences:
- I read…
- It was about…
- One interesting, surprising, questionable thing was…
Quick Take: How to Read an (Academic) Article
When I assign a reading, I expect you to:
- Print out a copy of the article. Don’t try to read something on which you will write on screen
- As you read, have a pen at the ready. Don’t use a highlighter. Underline, mark the margin, or place a question mark as you go
- Every time you underline or mark the margin, write a comment at the top of the page. Studies show that writing things down helps us remember them. It also helps us start inventing the material we will need to write a summary or comparison. Don’t read passively, but actively
Homework
Read one of the articles above for Wednesday’s class. Post a 200 word summary of the article to Canvas. The summary should:
- Identify the thesis of the article
- Explain the methods the author used to support her claims and/or explain important methods used by others who the writer cites in support of her claims
- Identify a debate, controversy, point of contention in the article
- Not use the words “thesis” or “method(s)”
Bring a copy of your article to Wednesday’s class.
Note that we will meet in Ross Hall 1240 computer lab on Wednesday.
