Students struggle with:
Don't assume students have developed skills on how to read scholarly articles on their own. If you don't want them reading and quoting exclusively from the abstract, help them understand how to apply strategies for academic reading.
Make students aware that reading is different in different disciplines. Model how scholars in your field approach texts.
Contrasting Book Reviews
* Students compare two reviews of the same book that have different conclusions or arguments, and examine the evidence used by the authors to arrive at those conclusions.
Close Reading of an Article
* Students read and deconstruct an article as a class to become familiar with the anatomy, structure and purpose of scholarly articles.
Grade Preliminary Research
Requiring research notes, an annotated bibliography or research portfolio, or a rough draft can encourage students to begin the research process earlier, and to consider all stages of it equally important, encouraging students to engage in the reading process in a meaningful way, rather than merely providing you with a final product.
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