More Captivating Your Audience

New Jersey Library Association

April 25, 2007

Eileen Stec, Rutgers University

The tutorial: What Makes a Journal Scholarly?

Purpose: teach the concept of peer review as the criteria for scholarship

demonstrate one method to verify peer review

Show some exceptions to the rule

Authenticity/Interactivity

Conrad, R. & Donaldson, J. A. (2004). Engaging the online learner: Activities and resources for creative instruction. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Interactivity inside tutorial Discussion-like questions Rollovers encourage exploration Memory exercise

Don’t forget the humor

Humor/discussion question

Vanilla discussion questions

Rollovers for discovery

Memory exercise

Interactivity outside tutorial Review Sheet Quiz

– Rubric

Printable Review Sheet

Quiz“What Makes A Journal Scholarly” Quiz1

 2. From the list provided below, place an X in front of the Journals you determine to be scholarly: ___ Psychology of Women Quarterly ___ American Journal of Family Therapy  ___ Contributions in Psychology ___ Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology ___ Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence  3. You searched the Medline index and found the citation listed below. Place an X next to the description that best describes the citation. Sokol DK. A family's request for deception.[comment]. [Comment. Letter] Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery - American Volume. 88(8):1892; author reply 1892, 2006 Aug. UI: 16882924 Authors Full Name Sokol, Daniel K.

___ Scholarly journal article ___ Letter submitted to the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery ___ Peer reviewed letter  ___ I don’t know

Answer Sheet2. From the list provided below, place an X in front of the Journals you determine to be scholarly: _X_ Psychology of Women Quarterly _X_ American Journal of Family Therapy  ___ Contributions in Psychology ___ Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology _X_ Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence  3. You searched the Medline index and found the citation listed below. Place an X next to the description that best describes the citation. Sokol DK. A family's request for deception.[comment]. [Comment. Letter] Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery -American Volume. 88(8):1892; author reply 1892, 2006 Aug.UI: 16882924 Authors Full Name Sokol, Daniel K.  ___ Scholarly journal article _X_ Letter submitted to the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery ___ Peer reviewed letter  ___ I don’t know

Rubric

Students received one point for each of the four correct answers.

Thanks This presentation is online at:

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~estec/presentations/njla2007.htm

The tutorial is online at: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~estec/tutorials/scholarly.htm