Part One: One page
WRTG 391 students,
Good job on completing your first writing assignment, the Critical Annotated Bibliography of Five Sources!
Your next three writing assignments need to include research study articles. As the name implies, research study articles are scholarly articles that report the findings of a research study. Many scholarly articles are research study articles and it should not be hard to find two research study articles within your chosen topic. In fact, you may have already included them in your Critical Annotated Bibliography!
This Discussion is designed to help you add to your research by asking you to analyze two research study articles in your chosen topic. You may wish to go back to Week 1 tutorial on How to Read and Comprehend Scientific Research Articles and refresh your memory on how to distinguish research study articles from other types of scholarly articles. If you used research articles in your Critical Annotated Bibliography, please find two new research study articles for this Discussion.
After you locate two research study articles within your topic, please read them thoroughly, state your chosen topic and complete the following tasks for each article:
- List the source in APA format.
- List at least three (3) key terms in the article.
- Describe the focus of the study in one or two sentences.
- Describe the methodology the author(s) used in one or two sentence.
- Summarize the study’s findings in two or three sentences.
- Write your reflections on the article itself and comment on whether you found the study difficult to interpret, whether you understood the methodology, or other items that might be of interest to your fellow classmates. Respond in two or three sentences here.
- Please comment substantively on at least one of your classmates’s posts.
This task will help you become more familiar with finding research studies on your topic, reading them over, gleaning the main points of them, and summarizing their findings. These skills will be helpful as you continue to research for the next three writing assignments.
Part two: One page
WRTG 391 students,
This week, you’re reading four reviews of the movie, Steve Jobs. As you read, you’ll notice some common threads among the four reviews. For this exercise, however, focus on the critics’ evaluation of the acting in the film.
Analyze all four reviews. Look specifically at their reviews of the acting in the film and consider what each review says about the acting (this may include casting, the actors themselves, their performance or other things).
After reading the four movie reviews, please complete the following tasks:
1. For each movie review, write one summary sentence describing what the critic says about the acting in the film. In addition, for each critic, quote him/her once to demonstrate the sentiment he or she expresses about the acting. Use the template below to provide your answers.
Ann Hornaday-
Summary statement about the acting:
Quote from this reviewer to support the summary statement:
Rex Reed-
Summary statement about the acting:
Quote from this reviewer to support the summary statement:
Benjamin Lee-
Summary statement about the acting:
Quote from this reviewer to support the summary statement:
Anthony Lane –
Summary statement about the acting:
Quote from this reviewer to support the summary statement:
2. Write three short paragraphs of three to four sentences each that synthesize all four reviews and the points the critics make on the film’s acting. Remember, when synthesizing, you don’t simply list what each critic says about the topic. You write about the issue of acting in the film and integrate the points of all four critics into that analysis. That means that each synthesis paragraph should mention at least two reviews/critics because you can’t synthesize a text with itself.
Here’s one way to approach your paragraphs: group critics into categories. For example, consider the reviews that tend to praise the acting and write about them in a paragraph. Then consider the reviews that found fault with the acting and write about them in a paragraph. Following this analysis, write a concluding paragraph that summarizes all four critics’ views on the acting.
Another way to think of this exercise is to imagine if you invited all four movie critics to dinner. What two or three questions—”categories” or “topics”— could you, the host, ask at least two of them at a time about the acting, and how would they each respond? Are there any questions that all four of them could answer?
3. Finally, comment on at least one of your classmate’s posts, in one or two sentences, on his/her thread. You might comment on his/her synthesis or on his/her summary of a review, make a suggestion, or offer a tip on synthesizing that you’ve discovered.
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