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Reading: The price of happiness
5.5 Vocabulary for reading Doing research
Understanding vocabulary in context Read the article from a university booklet.
1. Choose the correct form of each word in red.
2. What is the writer’s view of each statement below?
a. Information on the internet is usually wrong.
b. Writers on the web are always biased.
c. It is easy to recognize bias. d. You often need to check several sources.
B
Using new vocabulary Discuss the questions in pairs. 1. How can you read widely?
2. How do you recognize a quote in an article?
3. Name a popular magazine. 4. Name an academic journal.
5. Is a medical journal an authoritative source? Why (not)?
6. How can you validate information?
7. What is the bias of most national newspapers in your country?
8. How many extreme adjectives can you think of?
9. What is your view of arranged marriages?
10. Do you have any evidence to support your view? Vocabulary box
authoritative (adj) critical (adj) detailed (adj) evidence (n) extreme (adj) source (n) [= research] supporting (adj) validate (v)
How to do research
When you write assignments, you have to do research, which means reading widely / wide, using a variety of source / sources, including, nowadays, the internet. It does not mean just checking out Wikipedia and quote / quoting it word for word.
When students did all their research in the library, it was easy to find authoritative / author sources, because they could see the difference between a popular / popularity magazine and an academic journal / journals. On the web, you need to check who the writer is, who he/she is writing for, and whether the article just provides an overview or detailed / detail research.
You need to validate / valid all ‘facts’ on the web, because many writers of web articles are bias / biased in favour of or against their topic. For example, people are often ethnocentric and think their own culture is always right. Sometimes they state / are stating their bias. They say clearly ‘In my opinion / opinions ...’ Sometimes, though, they are not so direct, but they use extremely / extreme words, particularly adjectives, like stupid and disgusting, or brilliant and delicious. Sometimes, they only imply / implies things – in other words, you have to work out the opinion of the writer from the kind of evidence / evidences they give.
So you must critically / critical evaluate any information you read on a website. Keep thinking: What does the writer think about this point? Or perhaps, more importantly: What does the writer want me to think? If the writer gives evidence in support / supporting of a particular point of views / view, you may need to find evidence against in another article.
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