{"id":224,"date":"2020-01-06T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/?p=224"},"modified":"2020-01-07T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:56:06","slug":"academic-literacy-in-the-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2020\/01\/06\/academic-literacy-in-the-social-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-225 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-368x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-368x490.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/files\/2020\/01\/IMG_3973-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences\u00a0<\/em>is an indispensable resource designed to help students succeed in academic contexts. Highly engaging and brimming with practical tools, this comprehensive how-to guide uses evidence-based studying and research strategies to help students better understand and critically evaluate social science research in a world of mass media and misinformation. Vital discussions on issues such as evaluating junk science and fake news help students further navigate the contemporary academic classroom. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the social sciences, the complete introduction to academic literacy includes the following features:<\/p>\n<p><strong>APA Guide and Examples &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>how to cite research and understand (and avoid) plagiarism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Study Tips &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>how to save time and develop more effective studying strategies based on the latest research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Practical Advice &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>how to develop a topic for a research paper, conduct a thorough literature search, effectively summarize information, and successfully present findings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences\u00a0is an indispensable resource designed to help students succeed in academic contexts. Highly engaging and brimming with practical tools, this comprehensive how-to guide uses evidence-based studying and research strategies to help students better understand and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2020\/01\/06\/academic-literacy-in-the-social-sciences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5896],"tags":[203034,203037,970,467,76762],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memorial","tag-academic-literacy","tag-academic-writing","tag-education","tag-research","tag-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}