Scholarly journals are the primary means by which college professors, especially scientists, communicate and share their research findings. Journals are physically formatted like magazines but differ in important ways. They are peer-reviewed, with content decided by experts in the field rather than advertisers. Articles provide in-depth analyses for specialized academic audiences. Readers access journals digitally through university libraries or databases. Authors are typically not paid, contributing for prestige and to disseminate their work, while journals rely on subscriptions not advertising for funding.

1. CREM EWRT 2
Day 11
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS: HOW TO READ THEM AND WHY.

2. NYT Evening Briefing Quiz
1. What happened yesterday in the continuing
saga of the Korean peace process?
2. Gina Haspel will likely be confirmed by the
Senate as the director of which agency? Why
were some senators opposed to her?
3. More than 50 Palestinians have been killed
in protests against which country? On the
same day, the US Embassy to that same
country was officially moved to what city?
4. Last week, the CEO of AT&T apologized for
the company doing what?
5. Last week, Israel launched a counterattack
after a rocket attack by military forces from
which country? From which country were
those rockets launched into Israeli-controlled
territory?
6. Which country released 3 American
prisoners last week?
7. The president tweeted that he wants to find
a way to prevent the loss of jobs from the
collapse of ZTE, a company that is
headquartered in which country?

3. Business/Participation
How did P2 go? How did the midnight discussion
post deadline work for you?
What happened with Journal 3?
I updated the syllabus again. Pushed a couple
deadlines back. Current syllabus is always on
Canvas.
CREM Integrated Project:
HW #6 and your data collection.
◦ Once you have my approval of HW 6, you should
start collecting your data.
◦ How are you going to do this? When? I want a plan
from each one of you now.
Remember: the next step of this project (which
will require data) is due to Amanda at the end of
next week.
What does participation look like today?
◦ Four possible points!
◦ Up to two points for talking twice in our full
discussion (even if you are reporting back from your
group).
◦ Two total points for group participation:
◦ One point for the first journal activity.
◦ One point for the group discussion of Journal 3.

4. How do college professors
(esp. scientists) communicate
their ideas and research findings
with each other?
AND HOW CAN WE PARTICIPATE?

5. Groups for today
Ana
Brianna
Chris
Fermin
Jose
Kass
Kenny
Kyan
Lilie
Lisa
Daniel B
Dean
Drew
Eric
Esmeralda
Berna
Marvin
Mayela
Melissa
Monique
Nicole
Rei
Angelica
Esquivel
Jasmin
Juan
Julio
Daniel F.
Tito
Sara
Seona
Sylvina
Vanessa

6. What are scholarly journals like?
In groups—two journals per group.
Look through the journal issues, discuss, and complete
the worksheet.
Come up with specific pages that you can show the
class to support your points.
Be prepared to share with the class in 10 min.
(Remember: 1 discussion point for talking in your
group.)
Questions from the worksheet:
1. What do you notice about this journal physically?
How would you describe it?
2. How does it compare to a magazine?
3. Who is responsible for the content of this journal?
Who decides what goes in it? How can you tell?
4. How do the articles in this journal differ from articles
in magazines?
5. Who is the intended audience for this journal? Be as
specific as possible.
6. How do you think the intended audience gets access
to this journal? Where can you buy it?
7. Is there advertising in it? If not, how do you think
this journal gets enough money to publish?
8. Who gets paid for their work on this journal? Are the
authors of the individual articles paid? Why do you
think this?
9. What seems to be the most interesting article in this
journal (to you)? (You can judge it based on the title or
on the pictures/graphs/whatever.)

7. What was your experience
reading a scholarly
journal article?

8. Genre and Strategies
In your group
15 minutes.
Be prepared to share your results with the
class.
You can use your devices to look at Journal 3.
(Remember: 1 discussion point for talking in
your group.)
1. Identify key characteristics of this genre:
What are some things that you should
probably expect to see in most journal
articles?
◦ Can be format or content.
2. Tell us some strategies that you used in
order to figure out the main points or ideas in
this article.
3. Come up with what your group thinks is the
main idea(s) of this article. How/where did you
find those main points?

9. Strategy!

10. HW for Monday
Read:
Levitin, “Plausibility,” “Fun with Averages,
“Axis Shenanigans”
There’s a discussion post due Sunday night at
midnight.
Bring laptops (if you have one) to class on
Monday. We’re going to do some library stuff.
Start collecting data for the CREM Integrated
Project.