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
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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a very practical text, and has a very useful reading codes framework for a new UG to use.
better used for a research methods type unit
The author introduces skills and mechanisms whereby a reader can obtain, record, and catalogue information/data from a number of sources and keep track of it, which is very useful for those engaged in research.
A clear guide providing useful information for all students
This text is a good supplementary text to assist students with reading and understanding academic sources. It is a bit American at times.
THis text is vital in underpinning the development of a critical approach to reading research that students need to adopt in maturing as scholarsa nd researchers
It is very practical in orientation and makes useful links to the literature review process in social sciences research.
Helped PG students significantly ( as per their feedback in choice and interpretation of relevant journal articles.
I have recently adopted this alongside the Hart (1998) Doing a Literature Review text (our core text) because I find it a very useful and practical guide to help students improve their reading skills. The whole module focuses on how to evaluate literature and how this can shape your own research (for 1st yr PhD students and also some MRes students). We spend several weeks talking about how to interpret key sections of journal articles and how to write and organise notes from our readings and I find this book very helpful for that.
