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Writing support for your research: Reading scholarly works

This guide is intended to help AgriScience students with academic writing

Working with scholarly information

Scholarly information is not as simple as reading Harry Potter - unfortunately it is filled with technical terms, academic jargon and can be rather frustrating and time-consuming to read. Reading scholarly works can sometimes take up to an hour to read a 7 page paper, simply due to how technical it is.

Writing can be equally challenging while you try to walk the fine line between good paraphrasing, plagiarism and good writing.

The resources below are meant to help you with both those challenges.

Reading Scholarly Information

How to read and understand a scientific paper

There's a great detailed guide from the LSE blog on reading and understanding a scientific paper. It is summarised in the image below.

How to read a scientific paper

How to skim read