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LANG 5072 - English Academic Writing on Chinese Culture & LANG 5070 - Advanced Critical Writing for Academic Purposes: Start

This giide was created to help students of LANG 5070 & 5072 in 2025-26

Introduction

This guide is created to be a resource to you as you work on your assignments for LANG 5070 and LANG 5072.  It is especially related to doing an oral critique and annotated bibliography.

Intended Learning Outcomes

After taking these workshops, students will be able to:

  • Self-identify as scholars, in order to help bring meaning to their academic work
  • Name and describe the function of different sections of research articles & chapters to prepare to read, evaluate & question and critique articles.
  • Evaluate & compare different information source types (articles, books, handbooks, encyclopedias, databases) for possible search and research
  • Begin to evaluate GenAI generated content

 

After workshop: Feedback - https://library.hkust.edu.hk/feedback

 

Scholarship

Scholarship as an activity = thinking systematically

  • Systematic questioning
  • Searching
  • Looking  deep and long =  Scrutinizing -   詳細地檢查

Integration (making intellectual connections) between  ideas, theories, & experience = key to good scholarship

  • Applying a method from one area to another
  • Place a situation or phenomenon into larger theoretical framework
    • Drawing elements from different theories into a synthesis
    • Make new insight
  • Re-examine existing knowledge based on new or more recent development

(Hart 1998, p 8-9)

Research Apprentice - 學徒,徒弟,見習生

Humanities and Social Science have many sub-disciplines and methods - but has some core skills,  attitudes & abilities . As an apprentice scholar you will learn to...

  • Integrate theory & method:
    • Understand the knowledge base of your discipline
    • Understand the relationship between  theory, method, & research design and practical skills & particular methods
    • Understand your disciplines methodological foundations

(Hart, 1998, p. 5)

References

Hart, Chris. Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London: Sage, 1998.  (HKUST Library H62 .H2566 1998)

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