Select two papers that are examples of excellent and important work in your discipline / research area. You may ask your advisor or another expert for recommendations. Choose journal articles (not books).
Then, select one paper that is clearly outside of your discipline / research area. For example, if you are in Arts & Humanities, select 2 A&H papers and 1 Physical Science paper. If you are in the Physical Sciences, choose 2 PS papers and 1 Social Sciences paper, etc.
Then, complete BOTH A) AND B) BELOW:
A) Individual reviews of research papers (500 words for each paper = 1500 words total). Give the full reference of the work in the style typically used in your discipline. Write a short paragraph outlining the key points/findings of the paper (no more than 100 words).
For the two papers from your discipline
– Explain what you can learn about writing in your discipline by reading these papers.
Questions you need to ask yourself are:
. How do I know these are papers from my disciplinary area?
. What is special about the structure and language features of these papers that tell you that these papers are from your disciplinary area (and not another area)
o What referencing style is used?
. Do they make particular use of quotes, data, charts, statistics, etc .?
word count is 1500 Part A (500 words for each of the three articles) + 800 words Part B = 2300 total
Student course is master of applied linguistic (TESOL)