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来自 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 的课程

Academic Literacy

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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Academic Literacy

100 个评分

课程 1（共 5 门，Specialization English for Research Publication Purposes）

This is the first course of the English for Research Publication Purposes Specialization. The course is an introduction to what you need to know about academic discourse. You’ll gain important critical reading skills to help you develop as a self-critical scientific writer. You will learn practical tools and effective strategies for increasing your academic vocabulary and grammar so that you will write well-structured coherent academic texts.

从本节课中

MODULE I: THE READING–RESEARCH–WRITING CONTINUUM

This module will help you acquire critical reading skills so that you will develop as a self-critical writer. The module covers issues related to reading discipline-specific literature, which is indispensable from developing professional expertise in writing academic texts. The focus is on fundamental concepts of scientific writing, such as logical organization and argumentation.

Reading Literature9:35

Interacting with Texts6:49

Annotated Bibliography7:33

与讲师见面

Elena Bazanova
Director of the Language Training and Testing Center
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

[MUSIC]

What is an annotated bibliography?

An annotation is more than just a brief summary of an article, book or

other type of publication.

An annotated bibliography provides a brief account of the available research

on a given topic.

It is a list of research sources that includes concise descriptions and

evaluations of each source.

How is an annotation different from an abstract?

While an abstract also summarizes an article, book, website,

or other type of publication, it is purely descriptive.

Although annotations can be descriptive.

They also include distinctive features about an item.

Then, what is annotated bibliography?

An annotated bibliography is an organized list of sources, like a reference list.

It differs from a straightforward bibliography in that each reference is

followed by a paragraph length annotation, usually 100 to 200 words in length.

An annotated bibliography might review the literature of a particular subject,

demonstrate the quality and depth of reading that you have done,

exemplify the scope of sources available just such as journals,

books, web sites and magazine articles.

Highlight sources that may be of interest other readers or researchers.

Explore and organize sources for further research.

You need to consider carefully the text that you select for

your annotated bibliography.

Keep the full length questions in mind to help you clarify your choices.

What topic or problem am I investigating?

What question or questions am I exploring?

Identify the aim of your literature research.

What kind of material am I looking at and why?

Am I looking for journal articles,

reports, policies or primary historical data?

Am I being judicious in my selection of texts?

Does each text relate to my research topic or assignment requirements?

What are the essential or key texts on my topic?

Am I finding them?

Are the sources valuable or often referred to in other texts?

There are two major types of annotated bibliographies, descriptive or

informative, and analytical or critical.

A descriptive or informative annotated bibliography describes or

summarizes a source as does an abstract.

It describes why the source is useful for

researching a particular topic or question, its distinctive features.

In addition, it describes the author's main arguments and

conclusions without evaluating what the author says or concludes.

Please pay attention to the last sentence, while it points out distinctive

features about the item, it does not analyze the author's conclusions.

An analytical or critical annotation not only summarizes the material,

it analyzes what is being said.

It examines the strength and

weaknesses in what is presented, as well as describing the applicability of

the authors' conclusions to the research being conducted.

Please pay attention to the last sentence.

If criticizes the authors' research.

Now you're ready to begin writing your own annotated bibliography.

Choose your sources, so

before writing your annotated bibliography, you must choose the sources.

This involves doing research just like for any other project.

Locate records to materials that may apply to your topic.

Then you need to review the items.

Then, you review the actual items and

choose those that provide a wide variety of perspectives on your topic.

Article experts are helpful in this process.

Then you need to write the citation and annotation.

When writing your annotation, the complete citation should always come first and

the annotation follows.

Depending on the type of annotated bibliography you are writing, you will

want to include either the purpose of the work or summary of its content.

For what type of audience the work is written, its relevance to the topic.

Any special or unique features about the material, the strengths,

weaknesses, or biases in the material.

Remember, the citations themselves must be formatted

properly according to either APA, MLA, or Chicago Style, for example.

What does an annotated bibliography look like?

Content over annotated bibliography,

an annotation may contain all or part of the following elements,

depending on the word limit and the content of the sources you are examining.

Provide the full bibliographic citation.

Indicate the background of the authors.

Indicate the content or scope of the text, outline the main argument,

indicate the intended audience, identify the research methods if applicable,

identify any conclusions made by the author or

the authors, discuss the reliability of the text.

Highlight any special features of the text that were unique or

helpful, charts or graphs.

Discuss the relevance or usefulness of the text for your research.

Point out in what way the text relates to the themes and concepts in your article.

State the strength and limitations of the text.

And present your view or reaction to the text.

This is a sample of an annotated bibliography.

In the sample annotation each element is marked.

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