The „literate”university student
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https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2018.1.1Keywords:
academic literacy, critical attitude, information overloadAbstract
This study discusses academic literacy, i.e., skills, attitude, and knowledge that a university student needs to acquire so as to read, interpret and produce texts meeting the expectations of a given scientific community and of academia in a wider sense. Besides often discussed topics such as how to reference literature and avoid plagiarism, this study discusses the importance of critical attitude towards information, the need for interpretation, information overloadand how to ease its symptoms. This study argues that we need to raise students’ consciousness that the processes of writing and reading are not linear, since reading, thinking, synthesis and writing are based on a series of recurring steps; furthermore, that writing does not only include the production of new information but the collection and organisation of information too. It is also important to know their target audience, with special attention to the scientific community where they belong to.
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