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This document provides an overview of academic writing skills including asking questions, gathering information, referencing, summarizing, and proofreading. It discusses open-ended versus closed questions, credible versus less credible sources, paraphrasing versus quoting, different citation styles, best practices for referencing, and techniques for proofreading. The goal is to help students strengthen their research, writing, and citation abilities.

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2 - Rewind Academic Writing

This document provides an overview of academic writing skills including asking questions, gathering information, referencing, summarizing, and proofreading. It discusses open-ended versus closed questions, credible versus less credible sources, paraphrasing versus quoting, different citation styles, best practices for referencing, and techniques for proofreading. The goal is to help students strengthen their research, writing, and citation abilities.

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2 - Academic Writing Rewind (1)

David Zaruk
0475 61 51 01
[email protected]
Review exercises

Asking Questions
Getting information
Referencing
Summarising
Proofreading
Asking Questions

Learn how to assess, explore, brainstorm


Learn that this is essential for research
Learn that your biases are not intellectual strengths
Closed or open
Closed-ended questions seek only a yes or no answer:
“Are you a Belgian?”
Narrow, does not develop ideas, not for brainstorming
Open-ended questions open up ideas
Why, what, how, as questions, seek more than just
affirmation
Be open
Chat bar: Time to groove
Students are in a COVID-19 prison – their future is bleak

Brainstorm this statement – asking open questions


Light the chat-bar up
Gathering and processing
When you gather information, keep asking
yourself questions –what, what else, who, who
else, what, so what, how, how come, where,
where else, why, why not, when?
Find a way to collect and structure information
Process it according to importance
Let ideas dance with each other, find friends and
learn from each other
What constitutes a
resource?
Is a newspaper article a legitimate source?
What about Wikipedia?
These are sources to find sources (doors, but not rooms)
Websites contain information but you need to ask if this
page is agenda driven
What is wrong with agendas? We all have them
Chat-bar time
Give me examples of agendas
Do you have an agenda?
Why is having an agenda wrong?
Good sources include:
Share your views in the chat-bar ->
Books from major publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Summary articles, reviews, of respected resource
materials
Interviews with well-known individuals
Less good sources include:
Share your views in the chat-bar ->
Tweets
Web articles from biased organisations
Campaign materials (with PR managers)
Articles with no references
Articles that reference the Daily Mail
The credibility sniff
How do I know my references are legitimate?
Before, libraries validated my resources
Now how do I know that Google sent me to the right
sources. Re-ask Google with different vocabulary
Just like a farmer’s market, we need to give our resource
materials a sniff.
Check who wrote it (Google the name), who published
it, who referenced it
Before the break
The Model UN
Is this organisation credible?
How do you know?

Semester 2 – we’ll interview and conduct surveys to


know if something is credible
Break

Is this an agenda?
Are they credible?
About your Groups
Do you have one?
Have you been given access?
Is your Group Captain here?
Did your captain send me a message (not via chatbar)?
What are House Points?
What is the point?
The problems of plagiarism
 It is not like downloading music
 Academic integrity is important
 What is integrity?
 Are you cheating me or cheating yourself?
 How to learn to paraphrase

https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_plagiarism.html
Avoid plagiarism creep
 Don’t be lazy – can be interpreted as cheating
 Get away from copy-pasting materials
 Try to read, close window and rewrite (still source) – while
doing that, think on your own and add views (don’t just be a
follower … sheep!)
 Find the right time to write (multi-tasking clouds the brain –
turn off the other noise)
What needs sourcing?
 Remarkable quotes from individuals, VIPs
 Numbers, dates, data
 Events recording in time

 Sourcing (referencing) is not a bad thing – on the contrary, you


are showing me you had done some research. Demonstrative!
Chat bar
What is the best way to paraphrase?
Can I use a paraphrasing app, Word or Google?
Are there times when I am using too many citations?
What is the difference between footnote, endnote
and in text citation? When do I use them?
Do I need to use full APA citations in footnotes?
When to use a quote?
When information is significant and well-written. Can
use “...” within quotation marks to shorten text
Quote needs to be introduced with a signal
If more than three lines, indent in block text
After quote, need to analyse the significance
How to paraphrase
Identify what is important, what is not
To paraphrase is to take a key message from text and put it in
bullet point form
DO NOT just trim some words or change vocabulary
Try to take ownership of information
Use your language (mould it into something you can understand) –
change the words
Add value to the information – find an example to help understand
https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/quotingsources/
Which style to reference?
See reference document:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/u
sing_research/citation_style_chart.html
for a clear breakdown of all referencing styles
APA is expected at Odisee
Best practices
Provide a proper full Bibliography
IT IS NOT CALLED REFERENCES OR SOURCES … Pulease!!!
Include all sources, not just those you referenced
Use key author name in the text (with page # if quoted)
with parentheses
Put parentheses next to the referenced material (not at the
end of paragraph or text)
Do this even if you allude to the author in your writing
How to proof-read
 Little things make big differences
 Pay attention to the spell-check
 Give it time – not a quick scan but a deep read
 Ask yourself: Is this clear?
 Try to shorten text – often we are too wordy
 Get a friend to swap proofreading
https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Proofreading.html
Thank you
See you next week

David Zaruk
0475 61 51 01
[email protected]

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