Research Guides: How to Read a Scholarly Article: Additional Resources

Picturing Academic Writing

The following handouts provide diagrams of academic writing that may be useful when reading scholarly books and articles:

Article Annotation worksheet
Use this table to identify the key parts of scholarly articles, then compare across articles to see how scholars have asked questions, used evidence, and arrived at their conclusions.

Reading Diagram handout
Compares the components of academic writing between the sciences & social sciences and the humanities.
Created by April Cunningham

Scholarly Patterns handout (PDF)
Outlines the components of academic writing in the social sciences, as well as the common features of the literature review section.

Bibliography

Additional reading on rhetorical features of academic writing and scholarship as a genre.

Bazerman, Charles. 1988. Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Rhetoric of the Human Sciences. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press.

Hyland, Ken. 2004. Disciplinary Discourses : Social Interactions in Academic Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Knorr-Cetina, Karin. 1999. Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Latour, Bruno. 1987. Science in Action : How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Swales, John. 1990. Genre Analysis : English in Academic and Research Settings. The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.