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Learning Guide Unit 5 ENGL0101


Learning Guide Unit 5

Overview

Unit 5: Reading Critically

Topics:

  • Critical Reading
  • Abstracts
  • American Writers

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this Unit, you will be able to:

  1. Assess abstracts.
  2. Utilize critical reading skills.
  3. Analyze different writing styles and cultural themes.

Tasks:

  • Peer assess Unit 4 Written Assignment
  • Read the Learning Guide and Reading Assignments
  • Participate in the Discussion Assignment (post, comment, and rate in the Discussion Forum)
  • Complete and submit the Written Assignment
  • Make entries to the Learning Journal
  • Take the Self-Quiz

Introduction

This unit will focus on developing your critical reading skills. It will also include a reading from an American male or female writer that you will discuss in the Discussion Forum. Your Written Assignment is to find an abstract on your own (or use one of the provided links) and answer the critical reading questions provided for you in the Written Assignment area. This will be assessed by your peers. Finally, your Learning Journal this week will require you to reflect on how abstracts could assist you in your own research.

Although not required, it is strongly suggested to take the Self-Quiz as they will prove useful study guides for the Graded Quizzes later in the unit.

Discussion Forum Unit 5

You are required to submit a substantial response to the Discussion Assignment, which will be posted by your instructor in the Discussion Forum below. A substantial response is one that stays on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. If your instructor requires a specific word count, it will be stated in the assignment.

After you respond to the assignment, you are then required to both give a rating and also leave a significant comment (3-4 complete sentences) to at least three (3) of your peers' responses, in order to receive full credit. Rate only the substantial responses that contribute to the promotion of the discussion, and not the comments of your peers.

Please review and follow the guidelines below for assessing your peer's responses to the Discussion Assignment.

Discussion Forum Rating Guidelines:
10 (A) - Excellent, substantial, relevant, insightful, enriching, and stimulating contribution to the discussion. Also, uses external resources to support position where required and/or applicable.
8 - 9 (B) - Good, quite substantial and insightful, but missing minor details which would have otherwise characterized it as an excellent response.
6 - 7 (C) - Satisfactory insight and relevance, but required some more information and effort to have warranted a better rating.
4 - 5 (D) - Limited insight and relevance of the material; more effort and reflection needed to have warranted a satisfactory grading.
0 - 3 (F) - Unsatisfactory insight/relevance or failure to answer the question, reflecting a poor or limited understanding of the subject matter and/or the guidelines of the question.

If at any time you suspect that a post in this Discussion Forum violates UoPeople's rules regarding plagiarism and/or any aspect of UoPeople’s Academic Code of Conduct, please notify your instructor immediately.

Remember that your instructor will be reviewing responses, ratings, and comments - and will adjust ratings if he/she believes that they do not seem warranted or supportable.

Discussion Assignment

For your Discussion Assignment, you will practice using APA Citations to give credit to the source of the information you read. This is crucial since not giving credit (plagiarism) can lead to a Fail for the assignment, the course and even have you expelled from the university.

You will write a review of the short story you chose from the Unit 5 Reading Assignment story list. You will state which story you picked, why, and give a brief (three or four sentence) summary of the story. You will then say if you liked the story or not and why. At the end of this, you will list:

  • One quote formatted using APA in-text citation style.
  • One paraphrase formatted using APA in-text citation style.
  • The full reference information formatted using APA Reference section style (if you need help with the reference material, you can use BibMe at www.bibme.org but make sure you select APA and not MLA).

Remember, this is to be your own original work, so do not research the stories to see what other people have said and do not include material from any source except the story.

You are also responsible for replying with three or four sentences to three different students and rating their main posts from 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent) in the Rate box provided.

References

BibMe. (n.d.). BibMe - The online writing center. www.bibme.org

Written Assignment Unit 5

Your Written Assignment for this unit focuses on finding your own Abstract online (or using one of the abstracts provided to you) and, using the following list, answer the Critical Reading questions that were provided by Cumbria University.

If your abstract does not allow you to answer the questions fully, then state why you are unable to give an answer to that particular question and what you would need from the abstract to answer the question.

The questions to answer are:

1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about?

2. What is the author’s view? How do I know?

3. What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas?

4. Is the evidence valid? How do I know?

5. Is the evidence relevant? How do I know?

6. Have I heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it?

7. Do I agree or disagree with the views expressed by the author? Why?

Remember: If you use a quote or paraphrase, you need to give the proper APA citations and references.

This Written Assignment is assessed by your peers and will be for a grade. It will be judged mainly for the following:

  1. Did the student answer all of the questions?
  2. Did the student analyze the abstract?
  3. Is it an original work?
  4. Are there spelling or grammar issues?

Please note that you will not necessarily be provided with assessment aspects during assignment submission periods in your other courses.

Answers:

Written Assignment

submitted on Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 11:15 PM

modified on Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 11:49 PM

I choose the following abstract by Sarah E, Turner, Lauren A. Meserve, William G. Bowen with the title "Winning and Giving Footbal Result and Alumni Giving at Selective Private Colleges and Universities.

1.     What is the title of the text and what is the text about?

The title of the text is Winning and Giving: Football Results and Alumni Giving at Selective Private Colleges and Universities. And it tells about how changes in the success of institutional football affect giving behavior.

2.     What is the author’s view? How do I know?

This can be seen in the results of research from the author, where the results do not support the notion that winning and giving go hand-in-hand at the selective private universities that play big-time football.

3.     What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas?

I can see from the data collected by the author that microdata from 15 academically selective private colleges and universities, the analysis present fixed-effects estimates of how football winning percentages affect giving behavior.

4.     Is the evidence valid? How do I know?

Yes, the evidence is valid, because the author has collected data scientifically. The analysis presents a fixed effect estimate of how soccer winning percentage affects giving behavior. 

5.     Is the evidence relevant? How do I know?

The evidence is relevant based on the result gained by the author. We can see from the abstract that general giving rates are unaffected by won-lost records at the high-profile Division IA schools and at the Ivy League schools. Increases in winning percentages yield modest positive increases in giving rates, particularly among former athletes, at the lower-profile Division III liberal arts colleges. 

6.     Have I heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it?

To be honest I have never read or heard anything similar about the research. But the abstract is the first time for me.

7.     Do I agree or disagree with the views expressed by the author? Why?

I totally agree with the views expressed by the author. Because in essence, the author has carried out scientific research, by carrying out systematic steps and obtaining new results or knowledge. Because the research was conducted in order to find answers to the problems presented by the author.

Reference:

Turner, S. E., Meserve, L. A., & Bowen, W. G. (2001). Winning and giving: Football results and alumni giving at selective private colleges and universities. Social Science Quarterly, 82(4), 812-826.

Winning and Giving

submitted on Sunday, 17 July 2022, 3:17 PM

1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about?

Winning and Giving: Football Results and Alumni Giving at Selective Private Colleges and Universities.                

     how changes in an institution's football success affect giving behavior.   

2. What is the author’s view? How do I know?

Winning percentages result in modest positive increases in administration rates.    

I read the summary. 

3. What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas?

Using micro data from 15 academically selective private colleges and universities, the analysis presents fixed-effects estimates of how football winning percentages affect giving behavior.

4. Is the evidence valid? How do I know?

Yes because Show search result

5. Is the evidence relevant? How do I know?

Yes I think that 

6. Have I heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it?

No do not read 

7. Do I agree or disagree with the views expressed by the author? Why?

I agree with him, I think the results of his research are correct

The Answer for The Question on Assignment in Unit5

submitted on Saturday, 16 July 2022, 10:17 PM

1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about?

The title is “The National Bureau of Economic Research.”, and that text is about the relationship between racial prejudice and racial wage gaps

2. What is the author’s view? How do I know?

The author’s view is “all of the key predictions from Becker about the relationship between prejudice and racial wage gaps” (Charles, K. K., & Guryan, J, 2007) has be strong supported.This is based on author’s statement that “Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the key predictions from Becker about the relationship between prejudice and racial wage gaps” (Charles, K. K., & Guryan, J, 2007)

3. What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas?

The evidence is presented by the “rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey” (Charles, K. K., & Guryan, J, 2007) and “wage data from the Current Population Survey”. (Charles, K. K., & Guryan, J, 2007, p3)

4. Is the evidence valid? How do I know?

I think the evidence is valid because they had used the General Social Survey(GSS) the Current Population Survey(CPS), which are reliable data.

5. Is the evidence relevant? How do I know?

I think the evidence is relevant because they had used information on racial prejudice from the GSS and wage data form the CPS. These This information is sufficient to support their evidence.

6. Have I heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it?

I have never heard anything similar or dissimilar about the relationship between prejudice and racial wage gaps. This is probably because the country I have ever lived in is only Japan and China, whose huge majority citizen is Asian race.

7. Do I agree or disagree with the views expressed by the author? Why?

I can agree with authors view on point that supported by the evidence. This is because I think the evidence has no problems. I had no knowledge of the racial wage gap, therefore I had to make this determination.

Reference

Charles, K. K., & Guryan, J. (2007). Prejudice and the economics of discrimination. The National Bureau of  Economic Research. http://www.nber.org/papers/w13661

 

Written Assignment Unit 5

submitted on Monday, 18 July 2022, 4:21 PM

Abstract

This article looks at the effect that damage caps have on plaintiffs' recovery in medical malpractice litigation, using a unique data set of litigation in the South, from 1987 to 1999. During this time, Alabama underwent both the implementation and nullification of damage‐cap laws; neighboring states did not undergo any significant legal changes. The product of a difference‐in‐difference approach, the results reveal that the average relative recovery by Alabama plaintiffs decreased by roughly $20,000 after the Alabama legislature enacted damage caps and increased by roughly double that amount after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional.

Answer

  • What is the title of the text and what is the text about?
  • The title of the text: Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the South.
  • The text talks about: The other shows that there is a negative correlation between the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice and the promulgation of damages.
  • What is the author’s view? How do I know?
  • The summary does not allow me to answer this question because the author does not give his point of view or does not clearly present his conclusion.
  • What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas?
  • Apart from the fact that the author gives encrypted data, he does not provide the necessary evidence that can back up his ideas.
  • Is the evidence valid? How do I know?
  • There is no evidence in the abstract. It is impossible to answer this question.
  • Is the evidence relevant? How do I know?
  • There is no evidence in the abstract. It is impossible to answer this question.
  • Have I heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it?
  • No. did not.
  • Do I agree or disagree with the views expressed by the author? Why?
  • The summary is incomplete. It was not properly developed. I could not give an opinion for lack of information.

Learning Journal Unit 5

For this week's learning journal, write 3-4 sentences on why abstracts are an essential part of academic writing and how you may use them to help you narrow your research focus.

Answer:

A concise description is used to simplify the upload process to cyberspace and make it easier for readers to understand the substance and content of scientific work. An abstract gives readers a portrait of information about the content of a scientific work that has been made. The abstract is an essential component of scientific writing that must be included. Readers who might be interested can read the abstract before continuing. Anyone who writes abstracts should be able to do so. The relevant rules must also be followed while writing abstracts.