DOC714 Symposium I
Week 2 Assignment
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Critical Reading: Deconstructing a Non-Scholarly Text Worksheet
Locate1 short, opinion- or position-based article or essay, preferably written by only 1 author. In addition:
• Please do not select a peer-reviewed, scholarly source for this assignment.
• Ensure the selected article or essay is from a popular publication (e.g., newspaper editorials, blogs, political pundit websites, or educational or health care activist organization websites).
Engage in a systematic process of closely reading the article or essay. Attempt to derive a sense of meaning from the writing that is not an explicit argument the author is making, but is empirically grounded in the text. Examples of this sense of meaning might include:
• Uncovering a political or ideological position based on the historical nature of examples used by the author
• Determining an author’s value system around a particular issue by analyzing hierarchical structures in their essay’s organization
Complete Parts 1 and 2 using your selected assignment text and follow the provided instructions.
Cite references to support your assignment.
Format citations and references according to APA guidelines.
Part 1: Deconstructing Non-Scholarly Text
Provide the following information:
• Author of the text:
• Title of the text:
• Type of text (e.g., editorial, blog, etc.)
Complete the following 5 tables by using the information in the “Questions to Consider” columns to provide answers in the “General Description,” “Examples From the Text to Support Your General Description,” and “What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example or What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing” columns.
Table 1: Uncovering Explicit Meaning
Questions to Consider General Description Examples From the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
What is the explicit meaning? For example:
• What is the author’s intended message?
• How does the author convey this message?
Table 2: Uncovering Implicit Meaning
Questions to Consider General Description Examples From the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
What is the implicit meaning? For example:
• What assumptions underlie the author’s message?
• What belief system does the text convey?
• What contradictions exist between the explicit and implicit meanings you identified?
Table 3: Evaluating the Author’s Support for Assertions and Conclusions
Questions to Consider General Description Examples from the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
How would you evaluate the author’s support for assertations and conclusions? For example:
• What is the author’s primary source of authority? Are there secondary sources?
• What type of evidence is offered: anecdotal, quantitative, or qualitative?
• Whose voices are privileged?
• How is the author situated within the larger discourse in the field?
Table 4: Identifying Gaps
Questions to Consider General Description Examples from the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
Which gaps did you identify? For example:
• What is omitted?
• Whose voices are silenced?
• How do these omissions influence your interpretation of the text?
Table5: Evaluating the Author’s Thinking
Questions to Consider General Description Examples from the Text to Support Your General Description (e.g., words, phrases, or passages, including page numbers) What You Would Like to Emulate From This Example
or
What You Would Do Differently in Your Own Thinking and Writing
How would you evaluate the author’s thinking? For example:
• What are some examples of deductive logic?
• What are some examples of inductive logic?
• What are some examples of abductive logic?
• What are some faults in the logics?
Part 2: Thinking About What You Read
Develop2 questions that would require the author to think about the issue presented in the reading in different ways. This will require abductive thinking and/or perspective switching.
Provide question 1:
Provide question 2:
References
Note: The following provides examples for formatting different pieces of literature. According to APA guidelines, the reference page is not sub-divided by type of literature, but it has been provided in this format for ease of reference as you use this template. All references are in alphabetical order according to authors’ last names. All references listed in the reference list must have an in-text citation from that source in the body of the paper. For additional reference formatting examples, see Ch. 10, “Reference Examples,” of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). For APA tutorials on formatting citations and references, please access the Doctoral Writing Resources page on MyPhoenix.
When using this “References” template page, replace these references with your own, and remove the content type headings and this paragraph.
Journal Article Example
Ainsworth, S., &Purss, A. (2009). Same time, next year? Personnel Review, 38(3), 217–235.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480910943304
Authored Book Example
Bateman, T. S., & Snell, S. A. (2007). Management: Leading and collaborating in a competitive world (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Chapter in an Edited BookExample
Eatough, V., & Smith, J. (2008). Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In C. Willig & W. Stainton-Rogers (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research in psychology (pp. 179–195). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781848607927.n11