{"id":1689,"date":"2024-10-01T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/?page_id=1689"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:49:10","slug":"getting-a-peek-behind-the-wizards-curtain-teaching-students-how-to-read-academic-articles-with-haas-learning-to-read-biology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/getting-a-peek-behind-the-wizards-curtain-teaching-students-how-to-read-academic-articles-with-haas-learning-to-read-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGetting a Peek Behind the Wizard\u2019s Curtain\u201d: Teaching Students How to Read Academic Articles with Haas\u2019 \u2018Learning to Read Biology\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kevin E. DePew<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignments &amp; Activities Archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Depew-AAA-contribution.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Depew-AAA-contribution.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-00ac981a-32db-433f-9019-cc6d3f9ab850\" href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Depew-AAA-contribution.pdf\">Depew-AAA-contribution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Depew-AAA-contribution.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-00ac981a-32db-433f-9019-cc6d3f9ab850\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activity Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">As instructors across the disciplines know, most incoming college students struggle to read academic texts. While there is an array of reasons that students might not be reading their assigned texts\u2014from limited time to neurodivergent challenges to failure to see the assigned reading\u2019s relevance\u2014this series of activities is designed to familiarize students with the genres of academic articles and the process of reading rhetorically, or learning the text\u2019s place within its conversation (e.g., author, institution, time of publication, the debates in the field, influencing ideologies). This series of activities can become a focused assignment that culminates in each student more extensively examining the scholarly discourse of their respective field of study (see final activity). Since this series of activities is designed to be completed over 10 class sessions, the entire series of activities might take three to eight weeks. While this can be a large portion of the semester\/quarter, the series of activities is designed to deliberately slow down the process of teaching students how to read academic texts to help them develop confidence about achieved outcomes before moving on. If this series of activities does not meet a writing program\u2019s or institution\u2019s local student learning outcomes for writing, instructors are encouraged to supplement this reading instruction with writing instruction about students\u2019 major disciplines or career goals. Using Christina Haas\u2019 longitudinal case study of Eliza\u2019s four-year literacy journey in \u201cLearning to Read Biology: One Students Rhetorical Development in College\u201d (1994) instructors can 1) use the content to highlight a single student\u2019s experiences becoming enculturated through academic and disciplinary prose, and 2) use their students\u2019 process of working to understand the text to illustrate Haas\u2019 argument about the importance of learning to read rhetorically. Putting these goals together, I describe this series of activities as \u201ca peek behind the wizard\u2019s curtain\u201d because it seeks to demystify the production of scholarship and how to access the knowledge within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin E. 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