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Leveraging Social Annotation to Enhance Students’ Primary Research Literacy

Leveraging Social Annotation to Enhance Students’ Primary Research Literacy


Primary research articles are vital for both researchers and practitioners in staying up to date on new discoveries, providing the latest methods for investigating new phenomenon, and engaging in scholarly conversation. However, content-novice students are often challenged by foreign jargon, vague methods, and heavily referenced concepts that disengage students from journal club discussion. Traditionally social annotation has been used to enhance student engagement in pre-work assignments by putting the article on a common platform that all students can comment on together. However, social annotation can also enhance students' primary research article literacy through content expert guided causal mechanistic reasoning assessments and peer facilitated discussion of murkiest points. Through this workshop participants will interact with an example of a socially annotated research article to understand how social annotation can enhance students' research comprehension, engagement in journal club discussions, and equitably develop student predictors of persistence in the sciences.


Nick Denton
 
 Dr. Nick Denton 

 Senior Lecturer, College of Pharmacy