The purpose of this Activity is to give you practice reading a scholarly article and to think about the composition of the article in terms of genre. The reason that I have chosen an article that I have written is because I wanted to give you an opportunity to be able to ask questions about the process of producing this article that I can answer with authority rather than speculation. The instructor understands that reading this article is going to be difficult. Students in an English Composition class were not the intended audience for this article. BUT, many of you will need to learn how to read the scholarship in your own disciplines, which this article resembles.
First, read Scollaci & Pereira's "The introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD) structure: a fifty-year survey" and DePew's article "Social Media at Academia's Periphery" [Reading Matrix, 11.1]. Use the advice provided by Search & Write on the Ways of Reading page to guide how you read this article.
Scollaci & Pereira's "The introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD) structure: a fifty-year survey" is an IMRAD essay that provides a historical review of the IMRAD genre, the type of essay that DePew's article is and what you will be writing for Assignment #3: IMRAD Essay.
DePew's article "Social Media at Academia's Periphery" examines the social media writing of developmental writing students
Second, individually think through the following questions:
Third, as a group use the strategy that your team designed for Activity #1: Creating a Plan for Collaboration to answer these questions in a 500-750-word cohesive statement. I am not interested in the perspective of one person in the group whom the others have assigned to answer a single question. I want to learn how you helped each other understand this text and what the group collectively learned from the article. The answer to these questions should reflect the diversity of your group.
On February 5, 2019, only one person from each team needs to submit the Activity to the Google Classroom; however, all other team members should mark the Activity as done in Google Classroom.