With the help of Stellenbosch University, and particularly InnovUS, we have developed Abstrahere Academic, which is a web application and tool to assist masters and doctoral students in the critical analysis of academic texts.
Abstrahere Academic focuses on academic environments, and assists master’s and PhD students to improve and apply their critical reading skills – an important part of their thesis writing. Open and healthy communication between student and academic supervisor about critical text analysis is an integral part of the reading and writing process.
Master’s and doctoral students received an e-mail invitation from WARP Development to obtain access to the Abstrahere Academic application on the following link: http://academic.abstrahere.co.za
Using the application, you can upload scientific articles directly by selecting either File or URL. You will then be guided by online prompts to analyse the content, and by submitting your responses to a Critical Reading Box you make your own unique summaries for inclusion in the literature survey, theoretical foundations, discussion or conclusions of your thesis/dissertation.
- You will be guided to critically assess academic literature in your own unique way.
- Abstrahere prompts will guide you to summarize the essential ideas in the academic texts you have selected to read.
- Your Abstrahere Critical Reading Box summaries will better prepare you to select text from academic literature for inclusion in your dissertation.
- Optional prompts guide you how to manage your own Abstrahere Critical Reading box summaries.
- You can communicate directly on line with your dissertation supervisor about your Critical Reading Box summaries.
Al documents uploaded on Abstrahere Academic must be in Pdf format. Please remember to activate your Inetkey for on-campus internet access, and to use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome as your web browser (please do not use Internet Explorer because specific Pdf plug-in technical issues are related to Internet Explorer)
Background information on this application is available at http://abstrahere.warpdemo.co.za/. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on this application. Please send your feedback to hjb@sun.ac.za.
Met die hulp van Universiteit Stellenbosch, en in besonder InnovUS, is `n nuwe webtoepassing en hulpmiddel, Abstrahere Academic, ontwikkel om magister- en doktorale studente te help met die kritiese analise van akademiese tekste.
Abstrahere Academic fokus op akademiese omgewings en help meesters en PhD-studente om hul kritiese leesvaardighede te verbeter en toe te pas – `n belangrike komponent van hulle lees- en skryfproses.
Magister en doktorale studente het onlangs `n e-pos-uitnodiging ontvang van WARP Development waarin hulle toegang kan verkry tot die Abstrahere Academic-toepassing deur middel van `n skakel – http://academic.abstrahere.co.za
Die toepassing kan gebruik word om wetenskaplike artikels direk op te laai deur middel van `n leer of `n URL, waarna `n student die inhoud kan analiseer deur middel van aanlyn wenke. Die insette word ingevoer in die Critical Reading Box en unieke opsommings kan sodoende gemaak word vir insluiting in die literatuuropname, teoretiese grondslae of die gevolgtrekkings van `n tesis/verhandeling.
- Jy sal gelei word om akademiese literatuur op jou eie manier krities te evalueer.
- Abstrahere wenke sal jou met leiding help om die kern-idees van jou akademiese tekste op te som.
- Jou Abstrahere Critical Reading Box opsommings sal jou beter voorberei om te weet watter dele van jou akademiese tekste jy wil insluit in jou tesis/verhandeling.
- Opsionele wenke lei jou om jou Abstrahere Critical Reading box-opsommings te bestuur.
- Jy kan direk aanlyn kommunikeer met jou tesis-moderator oor jou Critical Reading Box-opsommings.
Alle dokumente moet in PDF-formaat wees as dit na Abstrahere Academic opgelaai word. Onthou ook om jou Inetkey te aktiveer as jy op kampus is en Mozilla Firefox of Google Chrome te gebruik as jou webblaaier. Moet asb. nie Internet Explorer gebruik nie, aangesien spesifiek PDF-byvoegings tegniese probleme veroorsaak.
Enige terugvoer oor die toepassing sal opreg waardeer word en kan gestuur word aan hjb@sun.ac.za. Agtergrond-inligting oor hierdie toepassing is beskikbaar by http://abstrahere.warpdemo.co.za/.
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