How to Read Journal Articles in the Social Sciences
A Very Practical Guide for Students
- Phillip C. Shon - Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Student Success
Study Skills
Refreshingly free of jargon and written with you in mind, it’s packed full of interdisciplinary advice that helps you to decode and critique academic writing. The author’s fuss free approach will improve your performance, boost your confidence and help you to:
- Read and better understand content
- Take relevant effective notes
- Manage large amounts of information in an easily identifiable and retrievable format
- Write persuasively using formal academic language and style.
New to this edition:
- Additional examples across a range of subjects, including education, health and sociology as well as criminology
- Refined terminology for students in the UK, as well as around the world
- More examples dealing specifically with journal articles.
Clear, focused and practical this handy guide is a great resource for helping you sharpen your use of journal articles and improve your academic writing skills.
‘I have used the book over the last five years with my students with great success. The book has helped students to develop their critical thinking, reading and writing skills and when it comes to writing a dissertation they have used the code sheet in their own writing.’ - Pete Allison, Head of the Graduate School of Education, University of Edinburgh
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This is a really important issue for students and a book on the topic is much needed. However, I didn't warm to this text. Addressing a topic that students will need to return to regularly I think it would have benefited from a more accessible style of presentation with key issues highlighted.
Great little book to help undergraduate students get to grip with how to read and process journal articles.
Other texts more accurately cover journal articles from counselling literature
I had high hopes for this volume but did not think it was well-organised and in my opinion the students would find it confusing. The system is based on annotating articles with 16 different codes, which are then used to create a sort of spreadsheet of relevant articles. In general the system of simplification and organisation is welcome. But there was no list of the 16 codes and I had to hunt through the text to make my own list. Key steps in the process, such as the annotation of themes in the left hand column, are passed over with a bare mention. In general I felt like this book was addressed not to students but to teachers, and that it touted a particular method which (apparently, according to the text) students found loathsome. Thus I will bear in mind the general themes but will not be recommending this text to my incoming students.
An excellent book on reading and digesting information that will be very useful to my students
I have found this book extremely useful both for myself and my students. have recommended to all my students struggling with academic writing and structuring the essays especially the ones where they have to critique an article from a journal.
Gives a good explanation of the issues around successful reading of academic articles. Written in an academic style.
It has some useful tips but, is heavily laden with acronyms, which may deter students.
it is a very good book for international students
A number of my students start their university careers struggling to engage with the way academics write for other academics. This book is proving useful in helping them to decode these texts.
