DPSY 6002 Week 3 Scholarly Writing: A New Way of Communicating
DPSY 6002 Week 3 Scholarly Writing: A New Way of Communicating
Now that you have developed the ability to analyze scholarly resources and employ critical thinking more diligently, we move on to how to express yourself in a scholarly manner. Scholarly writing also referred to as academic writing, has a voice and style unique to this format.
The primary purpose of scholarly writing is to clearly communicate information supported by the academic body of literature, furthering the knowledge and understanding of a topic in the field of psychology to an audience of scholars and those trained in psychology. There are many aspects of scholarly writing that will be covered in the next weeks of the course.
This week, you will use a body of literature to support your ideas, and you will need to paraphrase in order to communicate ideas from the literature.
Discussion: Discovering Key Concepts in Scholarly Writing
Scholarly or academic writing is comprised of a number of key ideas, including purpose, audience, presence of bias, and quality of evidence. It is important to understand these terms in order to incorporate them in your writing.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- Review the “Example Articles” found in the Learning Resources and select one of the articles for this Discussion. consider how the four concepts (purpose, audience, presence of bias, and quality of evidence) relate to the article you chose.
- Review the Study Notes: Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Purpose, Audience, and Evidence and the media presentation Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Purpose, Audience, and Evidence.
With these thoughts in mind:
By Day 4
Post a description of the four key concepts (purpose, audience, presence of bias, and quality of evidence) of scholarly writing as they relate to the article you chose. Further, explain why you believe these concepts are important to writing and communication in the field of psychology. Include at least one example to illustrate one of the concepts
