Assessment 1 Details

Reading Academic Writing

This task involves choosing a key article in your field, considering elements of its
style and structure and how you might use them in the development of your own
academic writing style. Please write in fluent sentence form (ie. no dot points/bullet
format):

Identify the article (reference using the Harvard Referencing System)

How does the article present its ideas in terms of structure and style? eg: the
Introduction, use of paragraphing, sub-headings etc.
What writing strategies used in this article might be helpful for you in your own
academic writing?

Feedback – General feedback to the group will be provided rather than individual
on this assessment.

Marking Criteria

1. 200-300 words
2. Based on your considerations of how the article writer has crafted his/her
ideas (Intro, paragraphing etc) and to consider these devices in relation to
your own academic writing (please note that the assessor will not be
responding to the article but rather to the observations which you are able to
draw from it).
3. The ability to write in fluent and grammatically correct prose.

Tips:

Think about how the introduction is structured in relation to Swales moves

Does the introduction actually reflect key themes explored in the text?
Is there consistency in the writing (see handout)
Does the writer use signposting? How?
How are headings used? If at all?
Are there particular discipline specific writing elements or elements of writing
style that you have noted in the text?
What sort of tone is used (formal, use of “I” etc.)
 Short Writing Task 1a: Academic Research Writing.
Assessment criteria
Criteria Comments (which will be
used for general feedback)
Identifies at least 3 key elements of structure and style in
the selected article

Identification of at least 2 writing strategies used in this

article and discussion of how these would be helpful to
own academic writing

Communicates in fluent and grammatically appropriate

prose of 200-300 words?

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This is an example of the answer (my friend answer) but she does not
take good marks .it just a sample guideline.
1- Research Article Introductions

In the first article, Mackey, (2014), the author does not use any citations but, he uses 26
referencing papers,
In the second article, Ahsan,Deppeler and Sharma (2013), the authors do not made any
citations but, they present 20 references to the literature .
It has been noticed in both articles that authors use paraphrase rather than citations.

2- Swales’ three Moves

Clearly, the introductions of both articles have Swales’ three moves and I will use the
second article, Ahsan,Deppeler and Sharma (2013), as example.

Swale move 1 – Establishing a territory:

In the first two sentences, the authors point out the importance of their topic
when they state that "Since the Salamanca Declaration (UNESCO, 1994), a number of
international initiatives such as the Dakar Framework (UNESCO, 2000), Millennium
Develop- ment Goals (United Nations, 2008), and the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (UN Enable, 2008), have reiterated the need for Inclusive
Education (IE) reform in an effort to ensure ‘education for all’. The UNESCO (2009)
policy guidelines describe IE as a ‘process aimed to offering quality education for all
while respecting diversity and the different needs and abilities, characteristics and
learning expectations of the students and communities, eliminating all forms of
discrimination"

Swale move 2 – Establishing a niche:

The second move is appeared when the authors raise a question about existing
thinking in the second paragraph, and this sentence shows that “How inclusive
education is enacted in schools depends upon a number of factors.”

Swale move 3 – Occupying the niche:

Move three is considered when the authors outline the purpose of the
introduction by this sentence “Thus, teachers’ preparedness during pre-service teacher
education programs can be considered an indicator of their future success in inclusive
classrooms.”.
 3- Sentence Skeletons

In this part I will us the first article, Mackey, (2014), to provide some examples about
Sentence Sheletons. ( red color is Sentence Sheleton ).

1- The landscape of education in the United States has changed dramatically

over the past four decades.
2- Act (EAHCA) in 1975 guaranteed all children access to a free, appropriate
public education.
3- The goal of inclusive education is to allow all students the opportunity to
learn and participate in a class that provides challenges and occasions for
success (TASH, 2011).
4- Factors such as a wide range of skill levels, high number of students seen in a
day, content specific training, and curriculum demands contribute to teacher
difficulties in developing effective inclusion programs in secondary
schools(Dukes & Lamar-Dukes, 2009).
5- Scheduling challenges, standardized testing, and teacher collaboration also
pose significant challenges to implementing successful inclusion in secondary
schools (Kozik, Cooney, Vinciguerra, Gradel, & Black, 2009).
6- In addition, most secondary school teachers are responsible…etc.
7- …understandings of individual student abilities and needs, and therefore,
limit the amount of…etc.