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Class 2. Library SearchLIBRARY SEARCH. Project December 2015 Class 1 –introduction to academic literature. Project outline. Class 2– library search at MISiS library ( first floor). Students use Science Direct and Scopus catalogues to • make a short list of textbooks, key texts, academic journals and patents in English suitable for their course work. ( a group assignment for students with the same intended degree field) • to find a book and a review article ( open access) in the field of their research paper for a short report ( a book) and a presentation ( an article); Class 3– tutorials with a language teacher : discussion on how to present a book and an article; Class 4, 5– presenting a short report on a book/monographs/handbooks. PPT presentation of the review article following the outline given below. Class 1. Introduction to academic literature . (based on EAP essentials. Teacher’s notes. 2008 Garnet Publishing Ltd.) Discuss these questions in your groups and make notes of your answers. TASKSHEET 1. Name_____________________________ Department_________________________ 1. What types of books or other texts did you read at different stages in your previous education (at the beginning of an undergraduate degree, near the end of undergraduate study?) How many of them were in English? _____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. How did you know what to read? Did you decide yourself or were you recommended to read specific books? ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
The questions below can be answered in RUSSIAN. 3. What is the title of your course/diploma paper? What is the topic? ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 4. How many different reading sources were you expected to use for a diploma thesis? How many English language resources? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
5. Are you supposed to conduct experiments or do some practical research? ___________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 6. Key words for your diploma topic: Russian___________________________________________ English_________________________________________ Tasksheet 2. Study this list of types of academic literature and match the definitions to the types of texts. Write the correct number beside each definition.
TASKSHEET 3. An undergraduate economics student was told by her tutor to read more widely. She found over 1200 titles in the economics section of her university library catalogue. Here is a list of some titles she found. Which category from Task 2 do you think each one belong to? How do you know? Which ones might be useful for her to read?
Class 2. Library Search Students go to MISIS library and search the catalogue ( see the procedure below) to make a short list of textbooks, key texts, academic journals and patents in English suitable for their course work. They should use the way the references are laid out in Task 3. Compiling this list is a group assignment for students with the same intended degree subject. One book must be selected for a short written description and one research article for a presentation. Date: 2015-12-17; view: 2666
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