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Exercise 8: Evaluating Your Reading Skills

This exercise is adapted from Activity 51 Reading Scientific Material by Catherine
Dawson (2016).

Preparing literature review: reading skills self-evaluation

You will have to read a lot to prepare a literature review chapter of your research proposal
or thesis.
Do you find any of these things challenging?

Check yourself:

1. I feel worried about dealing with scientific knowledge. I was never good at science.
YES / NO / MAYBE
YES
NO
MAYBE
2. I am afraid of mathematics. It is hard for me to understand mathematical and
statistical calculations when I see them in articles.
YES / NO / MAYBE
YES
NO
MAYBE
3. I find it hard to deal with tables, charts, graphs and equations.
YES / NO / MAYBE
YES
NO
MAYBE
4. I do not understand articles when they use a lot of scientific terms. I find it difficult
to understand texts, which use unknown scientific terms.
YES / NO / MAYBE
YES
NO
MAYBE
5. I find it hard to focus when reading scientific articles. Reading articles is a long
process for me.
YES
YES / NO / MAYBE
NO
MAYBE

6. I find it hard to find the time for all the reading, which I have at university.
YES / NO / MAYBE
YES
NO
MAYBE
7. I find it hard to understand, analyze and/or critique research articles.
YES / NO / MAYBE
YES
NO
MAYBE

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