Critical Reading and Researching Main Ideas

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Assignment: Critical Reading and Researching Main Ideas

In this Week’s Discussion, you reviewed reading strategies and examined your own research process. Now you will put these concepts and insights in practice for this Week’s Assignment.

To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Review the Learning Resource on Determining the Main Points of a Reading.
  • Choose one of the preselected journal articles in this week’s Learning Resources.
  • Applying the concepts from this week’s resources, critically read the journal article, taking notes or engaging in any research methods that you would like to try.

The Assignment:

Select three related main points from the journal article (excluding the Abstract), and directly quote them.

In addition to the directly quoted main points, compose 1–2 sentences of rationale for each main point. Use these sentences to explain the reason you selected each point from the journal article. Consider the following questions in your rationale:

  • Why are these three specific points the author’s main ideas?
  • What makes them stand out to you as a critical reader?
  • How are these main points related to one another?

Your submission should be 2-3 paragraphs long.

Choose a article:

Qiu, M., Hewitt, J., & Brett, C. (2012). Online class size, note reading, note writing and collaborative discourse.International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 7(3), 423-442. doi:10.1007/s11412-012-9151-2


Van Note Chism, N., & Weerakoon, S. (2012). APA, meet Google: Graduate students' approaches to learning citation style. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, 12(2), 27-38. Retrieved from http://josotl.indiana.edu/index


Wilson, B. G., & Linder VanBerschot, J. (2014). Co-teaching an online action research class. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 40(2). Retrieved from http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt

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