Research Questions and Answers

Questions: Does the author of the article introduce sources with signal phrases to avoid dropped quotations? What is one example of a signal phrase used by the author? How does the author establish the authority of the sources she uses? Which technique (quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing) does the author use most, in your opinion? How is the author synthesizing her sources: by agreeing or disagreeing with them? using them to support her own claims? By commenting on them? or by interpreting them? (The answer could be a combination of these.) Does the author provide research that presents more than one point of view? If so, write a one sentence summary of each point of view presented by the source being discussed. Write down one example of a partial quotation from the article. Overall, do you feel the author of this article effectively used her sources? Why or why not? Answer: 1. The author of the article used sources with a signal phrase to avoid quotations. In the 10th paragraph of the article, while describing the findings of a psychologist Patricia Greenfield, the author used a signal phrase and did not use a direct quotation. 2. The author gathered information from original sources like University studies, findings of the researchers from the psychology department, to provide authority of the sources she used. 3. The writer of the article mostly summarized the findings and researches of other researchers. In some cases, she paraphrased their research outcomes to avoid dropped quotation. 4. Before commenting anything on effects of digital reading or disadvantages of digital reading, the author provided proper sources from various researches. 5. The author mentioned both positive and negative sides of the topic like it restricts a reader to gain a proper understanding of the topic but she also mentioned that in some cases it is found that students are more frequent to answer questionnaires' via online platforms than printed questionnaire method. 6. Physical, tangible books give children a lot of time (Konnikova 2014), 7. The author of this article used her sources where she wanted to prove a point or she wanted to support her statement. Therefore, it can be said that she effectively used her sources. 8. The author has used her sources effectively as whenever she tried to comment on the topic; she attached relevant sources with it to justify her thoughts. 9. According to the writer, physically printed books allow the students to have more time to read and understand the topic clearly but digital reading is very fast (Konnikova 2014). The author says that currently the children have adopted a habit of digital reading, so it is not possible to go back to the physical reading process (Rosenwald 2014). References Konnikova, M., 2014.Being a Better Online Reader - The New Yorker. [online] The New Yorker. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/being-a-better-online-reader [Accessed 2 Feb. 2016]. Rosenwald, M.S., 2014. Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say.