XENI001 Academic Reading

1. XENI001 AcademicReading Tietotekniikka, Autumn 2012 Elina Ahtikari

2. Session 2 • Vocabulary • Learningstrategies • OnlineDictionaries& otherresources • Vocabularylogs • Research • What’s new in IT? • Onlineresearch • JYU resources

3. VOCABULARY Assosiationgame • GROUPS of 4 • TIME: 2 minutes • LIST Englishwordsrelated to the givenone(e.g. HOUSE  window, roof, door,home, apartement, rooms..) • POINTS:Eachwordthat no othergrouphas – 1 point • Group withmostwords in the list – 5 points

4. What’simportant in vocabularylearning? • Whatdoyoudowhenyoucomeacross a new word? • Howhaveyoulearnedvocabulary in the past? • Testyourstrategies- Optima

5. What does it mean to know a word? http://kielikompassi.jyu.fi/opetus/englanti/xen060/sanakirjat_knowing.shtml

6. VOCABULARY STRATEGIES FOR UNFAMILIAR WORDS When reading a text there are a number of strategies for unfamiliar words: • Read for ideas, not words. • Decide if the word is essential in understanding the writer's general idea. • If it's not essential, keep reading. • If it is essential, try to guess the meaning from context. • If context does not help, use a dictionary.

7. Guessing the meaning from context Analysethe context clues in the sentence where the word is or in the surrounding sentences. • familiarity of the situation described, • explanations, examples or descriptions of the situation provided by the writer, • cause and effect relationships (because, so, thus etc.), • contrasting relationships (but, however, although etc.), • words with similar meaning, • reference words (other, this, such etc.), • descriptive words, at least knowing whether they have a negative or positive meaning, • definition given by the writer, • word parts, eg. prefixes and suffixes

8. Know your prefixes and suffixes • Prefixes showing quantity • Prefixes showing negation • Prefixes showing time • Prefixes showing direction or position

9. Know your prefixes and suffixeshttp://www.apus.edu/ctl/students/skills-development/vocab.htm Prefixes showing quantity • half: semiannual, hemisphere • one: unicycle, monarchy, monorail • two: binary, bimonthly, dilemma, dichotomy • hundred: century, centimeter, hectoliter • thousand: millimeter, kilometer Prefixes showing negation • without, no, not: asexual, anonymous, illegal, immoral, invalid, irreverent, unskilled • not, absence of, opposing, against:nonbreakable, antacid, antipathy, contradict • opposite to, complement to: counterclockwise, counterweight • do the opposite of, remove, reduce: dehorn, devitalize, devalue • do the opposite of, deprive of: disestablish, disarm • wrongly, bad: misjudge, misdeed

10. Prefixes showing time • before: antecedent, forecast, precede, prologue • after: postwar • again: rewrite, redundant Prefixes showing direction or position • above, over: supervise, supererogatory • across, over: transport, translate • below, under: infrasonic, infrastructure, subterranean, hypodermic • in front of: proceed, prefix • behind: recede • out of: erupt, explicit, ecstasy • into: injection, immerse, encourage, empower • around: circumnavigate, perimeter • with: coexist, colloquy, communicate, consequence, correspond, sympathy, synchronize

11. Dictionaries • Monolingual dictionaries • Bilingual dictionaries • Thesauruses • Dictionaries aboutidioms, phrasal verbs, common mistakes, culture etc.

12. A good dictionary will tell you some or all of the following: • word • spelling • pronunciation • meaning • senses • grammarand wordclass • collocations • register • connotations and culrural info             • relatedwords • example

13. Group work: OnlineDictionaries 1. INVESTIGATION (15 min) • EachgroupinvestigatesoneOnlineDictionary • Findanswers to the givenquestions, makenotes 2. PREPARING TO PRESENT (15 min) • Choosethe mostimportantpoints • Decidewhotellswhat • Howareyougoing to illustrateyourfindings? 3. PRESENTATIONS – 5-10min/group

14. Independentstudy: Vocabularylog • Startcollectingprofessionalvocabulary as youreaddifferenttext and comeacross new words • Mindmaps, pictures, categories, (list) • Explanations in English +choseninformation

15. Exersiceyourvocabularyskills • Read the textonce • Fill in the wordsyoualreadyknow • Try to guess the meaningfrom the context • Find the unknownwordsfrom a dictionary & check the words you are unsure of.

16. The Academic publishing process • Academics usually publish their research in formal publications: • such as journal papers and articles or reports. • These follow formal procedures designed to quality-assure the work.

17. Peer review / refereeing • Peer review is what characterises academic research. • If a publication is peer reviewed it means it has been • read, • checked • authenticated (reviewed) by independent, third party academics (peers). • Has been the quality-control system of academic publishing for hundreds of years.

18. Scholarly journals • Peer reviewed articles are often collated into scholarly journals • Published by academic publishing houses, professional societies or university press. • Key source of information in academic studies Electronic journals • Nowadays many are also available in electronic form • Access to eJournals is not usually free • Journals via the University library web services

19. Most academics rely on specialist databases to access details of past research. The databases draw together details of scholarly publications from a wide range of sources including academic publishers, journals, archives and sometimes books, and so enable you to search a large body of the scholarly literature in one go.

20. PAIR WORK: The Bad and the Ugly • Read the giventext and find the main points • Summarizethe information to yourpartnerin Finnish • Whatshouldyourememberwhensearchinginformationonline?  Take the Quiz– link in Optima

21. What’s new in InformationTechonology?

22. NELLI portal Databases, electronic journals, e-books, library catalogues etc. • FindDatabases – Access to individualdatabases • FindeJournals – SpecificJournals in yourfield • QuickSearch– Severaldatabases at the sametime • MetaSearch – Chosendatabases (max 15) • My Space – Saveyourrecords

23. Examples: Databases • Ebscohost is a big e-resource provider, offering databases and e-journals in a number of subject areas • LINDA is the union catalogue of Finnish University Libraries, Use LINDA especially if you want to find: • Master's theses completed at all Finnish universities • Foreign literature available in other Finnish university libraries • ProQuest Central is a large multidisciplinary database with e-journals. Selecting and using resources: https://koppa.jyu.fi/avoimet/kirjasto/library-skills-tutorial/selecting-and-using-resources

24. The most important databases of information technologyJyuLibraryTutorials • ACM Digital Library - bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947. • IEEE Xplore - provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards. • CiteSeer- focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. • Computer and Information Systems Abstracts (ProQuest) - a wide area of computer and information systems literature. Provides references to the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world, including hard-to-find conference literature since 1981. • Electronics and Communications Absracts (ProQuest) - the database indexes sources of information in the field of electronics and communications since 1981. The abstracts only. https://koppa.jyu.fi/avoimet/kirjasto/resources-by-subject/information-technology

25. ProQuest Computing - Top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet. • ProQuest Telecommunication - Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters • Sciverse Science Direct (Please see: Computer Science) - multidiciplinary database including several information technology journals. • Springer Link (Please see: Computer Science) - multidiciplinarydatabase including several information technology journals. • arXiv e-Print (Please see: Computer Science) - e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. • Web of Science/Science Citation Index Expanded - provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. NB. Max 5 simultaneous users.

26. Examples: Electronic Books (IT) • Handbook of research in mobile business - handbook with technical, methodological, and social perspectives. Covers subjects like: mobile commerce, mobile communication systems, economic aspects. • Lecture Notes in Computer Science - full-text access to book serie 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science'. • Ebrary – over 70,000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas. • Ellibs – e-book collection. Multidisciplinary, also books in information technology.NB. Registration needed. User ID = Library card number,Password = PIN-code (same as with JYKDOK). • SAGE Research Methods Online - SRMO is a research methods tool, linking SAGE's renowned research methods content with sophisticated search tools. The site contains 504 book titles, including the entire QASS (aka Little Green Book) series, 6 dictionaries, 4 encyclopedias and a Major Work containing journal articles.

27. PRACTISE • EXERCISE 1Open NELLI in a new window. Search for the dabases in Information Technology • EXERCISE 2Think of an interesting field in IT and search for eJournals in that area. Choose and save at least 3 you might read in the future. Check if they are peer-reviewed. • EXERCISE 3 Search for ebooks in Computer Science – what resources can you find?

28. Think of an interestingtopic in yourfield and browsethoughdifferentjournals to find an article • Chooseonearticlepublished 2009-2012 (4-10 pages) • Bringitwithyounexttime

29. Evaluating results • When evaluating the results, consider the following questions: • Is the document relevant to your topic? • Does the document meet the criteria of scientific quality? • Is the document reliable? • How current is the document? • Is the document available and at what cost?