Reading Skills by https://padlet.com/ectongue/Bookmarks Add some notes en-us 2020-07-02 15:47:52 UTC 2020-09-15 08:26:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Group 3 Reading efficiently 1343174133 https://padlet.com/ectongue/Bookmarks/wish/747022285 If you want to read efficiently, first, you should perform a simple scan before reading carefully to see if the material meets the requirements. Then, skimming and scanning can help you progress in screening the materials you want to choose. 
Gutting the literature
This approach helps you to analyse how useful a book will be and to select material for a specific purpose. You need to
· establish and evaluate the value of the book by looking at its aims, introduction, contents and index
· identify passages that are important to your aims
· skim read these sections, as well as the ones before to get an idea of context
· read the chosen sections in depth.
This is a fairly ruthless approach, but one which helps you to be selective.

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2.Searching online.
-Refine the string. Make it manageable and relevant by reducing the number of hits.
-Use a Google Scholar search.
-Use an OU library search.
-Use Wikipedia.
-Use a web search.

3.Evaluating academic material
-After finding the materials, evaluate them according to relevance, provenance, objective, timeliness, presentation and method, so as to select valuable materials for use.]]> 2020-09-15 08:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ectongue/Bookmarks/wish/747023420 Group2 chungwong1011 https://padlet.com/ectongue/Bookmarks/wish/747024342 Text books
Strengths:
1. Text books can present a focused view of a key issue.the author has drawn on a range of sources and synthesised these into a set of coherent arguments. 
2. Multi-themed text books are useful in presenting a broad view of a field of study, the relationships between theoretical perspectives, the views of different authors, and the models and tools that they produce.
3. Research methods books focus on a particular outcome and guide you through the process, drawing on the key issues.

Limitations:
1. Text books that focus on a particular issue may present a very particular view.
2. Text books which cover a great range may present a partial rather than a complete picture.
3. Even in a new book the information may be out of date.



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Understanding
·        Recognize who produced the thesis
·        When the work was produced
·        Identify the central claim or claims of the thesis
Questioning 
·        Identify if the argument used reasoning and debate to argue claims
·        Identify if the thesis wasverified by evidence from primary or secondary sources.
Evaluating
·        What is needed for the thesis and why 
·        Point of conclusion on the value of the stated work
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Strengths: Usually offer a more current view than do text books, and have credibility due to the process of peer review.
Journal articles are seen as being either theoretical or empirical.
Limitations 
Whilst academic journals can present new and varied perspectives, some do this in rather inaccessible language

Professional journals
Strengths:  produced by the bodies that oversee practice in a range of professions,these journals uphold the standards of the profession, and checks are made on the credibility.
they are produced for a practitioner audience they are written in a language which is usually quite accessible.

Limitations
The language used in professional journals can be a problem if you are totally new to a particular field of study. Professional journals may follow a particular way of thinking. People schooled in a profession tend to see things in a similar way.



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