Blog post 9
In the reading AW chapter 8 it talks about Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences. The first thing I am going to talk about is structure. Common elements that are found with structure are quantitative and qualitative studies. With quantitative studies the more quantitative the study is you are more likely to use the MRAD format. IMRAD format is Introduction, method, results and discussion. With introduction you want to give a brief overlap on what you did with the study. With methods are quantitative and qualitative studies. With results you just put all your results that were found in the study. Finally discussion. In the decision you talk about why you did the study and its impact on doing the study. Other elements found in structure are conclusions, titles, abstracts, acknowledgements, references, and appendices. Common elements that are found with language are active and passive voice. Active voice is when someone is doing the action., In passive voice however someone is receiving the action. Also what is talked about in language is hedging. Hedging is when you want to make a point but not overstep the point. Common elements that are found with references are in text documentation. In text documentation is when you are making a reference for one of your sources in your paper. What is also found are summary and paraphrasing. After reading and writing a literature review you want to synthesize sources. What synthesizing sources is the process of identifying and describing the relationship between and among researchers. Another way to organize your sources is making a source synthesis chart. The author essay the source synthesis chart helps with visualizing areas that overlap in your sources. In the study what I find lacking in the information is the study is really not anything in my opinion it is all information that I am newly learning.
Dear Daniel
I think you did a great job explaining Chapter 8 of AW(Academic Writing). You explained structure amazingly with quantitative and qualitative studies. Quantitative studies are the parts of reading and writing that “rely on collecting numerical data and performing statistical analyses to reveal findings in research”, some examples are chi-square tests and regression. Then, the opposite Qualitative studies “rely on language, observation, and reporting of individual human experiences to reveal findings in research.” I am glad you put IMRAD in your blog post because it’s so important to have a format that has an Introduction, method, results, and discussion. I also love that you explained every part of the format. I don’t know about you, but I struggle with the quantitative part because I like to write how I feel rather than numbers and data backing up my research. When you said, “Other elements found in the structure are conclusion, titles, abstract, acknowledgments, references, and appendices.” I didn’t know what “appendices” meant at first, but now I know it means the sections at the end of a document or book that contain supplementary information. Then, for language, we learned about active and passive voice. A passive voice is often preferable in writing in the social sciences and natural sciences because although it may seem wordy or unclear to some readers, in some instances, an active voice is a grammatical structure where the subject of a sentence performs the action of the verb. I learned about hedging in this class, actually, because my high school English would bring it up, but all I thought about was gardening, so I wouldn’t retain anything. But hedging occurs when researchers want to make a claim or propose an explanation but also want to be extremely careful not to overstep their findings based on actual data. I agree with you about your lacking part in information because all this stuff I’m reading it for the first time, but if I read it again, I probably would have more of an opinion.