I have these 3 horrible journal articles on education to read for a test in 2 weeks i have read each several times and still cant get the jist of them and am getting really angry with myself. i have tryed reading parts of it only to make sense of it but it dont seem to be working.
Emma
Why are journal articles so anoying?
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Mostly it's because journal articles are really badly written.
If you don't get the gist from the abstract + introduction chances are whoever wrote the paper couldn't teach his grandmother to suck eggs.
Are they referencing anything frequently? Sometimes it helps to get a similar paper and have them explain the key concepts before refering back to the existing one.
Sometimes I find reading the conclusion first helps so you can contextualise everything else in terms of that.
If you don't get the gist from the abstract + introduction chances are whoever wrote the paper couldn't teach his grandmother to suck eggs.
Are they referencing anything frequently? Sometimes it helps to get a similar paper and have them explain the key concepts before refering back to the existing one.
Sometimes I find reading the conclusion first helps so you can contextualise everything else in terms of that.