Party Time (Intro)
This social gathering is used as the main analogy for entering academic writing.
What is a party?
The term for ongoing, contextualized, inquiry-driven dialogue between scholars through their writing.
What is the academic conversation?
This short summary helps quickly determine an article's relevance.
What is an abstract?
the process of bringing together evidence from multiple sources to gain new insights
what is synthesis?
This statement in your paper typically presents your main argument or contribution to the conversation
What is the thesis statement?
This feeling is common when first joining an unfamiliar conversation or academic field.
What is anxiety or nervousness?
Academic conversations are driven by this, rather than starting with fixed positions.
What is inquiry (or questions/intellectual curiosity)?
Often developed while reading research, this is a good starting point for focusing your academic inquiry.
What is a research question?
Synthesis benefits both the researchers understanding and also helps this person grasp the context for the writers contribution
a contribution doesn't need to be this adjective, meaning world-changing: small additions are valuable
What is your own contribution?
The first step recommended when approaching an ongoing conversation, academic, or otherwise.
What is listening?
Specialized groups of individuals who share expertise and form their own lexicon for discussing topics.
What are discourse communities (or communities of practice)?
Using these parts of articles helps you follow "chains of connections" to find related works.
What are works cited pages (or citations)?
commonalities, disagreements, and outlier positions are examples of these you look for when synthesizing sources
What are relationships between sources (or patterns/threads in the conversation)?
good academic writing requires balancing the relaying of others work with adding this.
what is your own contribution?
The text aims to make readers feel this way about joining academic conversations, according to the text.
What is confident or empowered?
This key aspect means academic texts don't stand alone but emerge in relation to each other.
This key aspect means academic texts don't stand alone but emerge in relation to each other.
A reading strategy involving looking at topic sentences, section titles, and conclusions to get the gist.
A reading strategy involving looking at topic sentences, sections titles, and conclusions to get the gist.
The text uses a silly debate about the merits of these two types of pets at a party to exemplify synthesis
What are cats and dogs?
what is making a contribution?
These individuals have "forged a path" and left a "map" for newcomers to academic conversations, according to the text.
Who are previous scholars or writers?
The three-step process suggested in the chapter for joining the academic conversation.
What are the identify, synthesize, and contribute?
Finding these authors or specific works cited frequently by others suggests their special importance in the conversation.
Who/What are key or influential sources/authors?
This specific activity involves summarizing sources as a dialogue to help analyze their connections
What is the suggested synthesis activity (writing out source summaries as dialogue)?
If your paper only summarizes others without adding your own point, it might be like this type of brief, agreeable online comment mentioned in the text
What is replying "this"?