Week 12: refining your review: craft lessons
You have an Eli Review task posted. As is the pattern all semester, PLEASE BE ON TIME FOR EACH OTHER. Then, the giving and receiving of feedback party can begin. Remember that your final review is due April 30, though, as ever, you can turn in later, as your work schedules permit.
Here is our OHitS/AMA for today. See you there between 9-12 this morning.
Between now and the end of the month, we will talk about some conventions of science style in this genre. How is your ethos paragraph, within the first portion of your document? Here are some refinding details on that:
- For lead author, use first and last name in the first mention, then,
- shift to land name only (NO DOCTORAL TITLES);
- Give author ethos of
- discipline
- current institution
- PhD granting institution
- DO NOT USE THE ARTICLE TITLE, as this is often too long and even visually awkward, instead,
- use a phrase or two aboout the content in your ethos paragraphs; and
- name the journal (USE ITALICS); and, finally,
- give the year of publication.
Now, some discussion and examples of two important "binding" or cohesion strategies: metadiscourse and counting out. Recall the magic numbers of cognitiion? Build further "flow" for your readers by alerting them to the numbers. For example,
Let's turn now to three points from Higgs' paper on particle physics.
Among the many important findings from Kimmerer-Wall's research are two inovative methods. The first method to explore is. . .
These two methods supported her in finding the mosaic genetics patterns in maize species of Northern Mexico. This new understanding of maize landraces is the chief takeaway of Kimmerer-Walls classic 1998 work. More than 1287 citations acknowledge her contribtuion to plant ecosytem genetics.
Do you also see the claim-argument pattern or rhetorical move in this last example? Preview: we will talk more about claim and argument on Wednesday and Friday.
Also, for fun, enjoy this clever song parody. Can you figure out the song being rifffed upon?
Marybeth Shea
Same OHitS/AMA from monday document here. I will host between 9-12. Post thus far to Eli Review reflect such thoughtful work. I will enjoy eavesdripping on others posts soon. Let this be encouraging to you. I want to introduce a wonderful resource for you that functions as a guide to science style AND IS A PHRASE BANK!
Do you remember word banks, word walls, and the like from k-12?
This image is from Henderson, Jenny & Wellington, Jerry. (1998). Lowering the language barrier in learning and teaching science. Sch. Sci. Rev.. 79.
You may enjoy this Manchester University Academic Phrasebank as a way to look at sentence starters that help you write about science. Start with the homepage linked here but also examine these sub-pages about your article review needs:
Introducing work (defining terms is in this sub-page)
The guidance here is directed at the writing of scientific research results BUT you can also learn about how to write a review of such documents. In this way, your work is meta-based or hovers above.
Marybeth Shea
We will be in a new OHitS/AMA here, for some Q&A and my preview of some next steps. For example, we can talk about some variations in the overall shape, including
- Do I have a lemon or a pear? Is there another shape? Perhaps a butternut squash?
- I want to handle my analysis a bit differently. May I?
- That stats paragraph scares me. Can I punt?
Explore this padlet, with an eye for understanding
- how PWP instructors (me too!) and higher ed more generally, think of the value+process of peer editing
- gaining a sense of the types of judging we engage in and having a "Accountable Talk" bank of phrases you can use for this professional work.
Preview: you will engage in this type of encounter when you work with peers and when you supervise or lead. I would linger in these three resources in the padlet:
- Ranking, evaluating, liking article
- MbS/MPP Accountable Talk pages (if we were F2F, I would pass out bundles of these cards for in-class peer editing/collaborative revision.
- Piece on the human drive to critique! Is powerful!
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