Seminar leader	Bart Klem
Room	ALC Psykologen
Time	13:15 - 15:00
Instructions	Read the text assigned to the group you are part of and start preparing for assignment 1. Please make sure to bring a laptop to class.

This seminar and Sem IV are focused scrutinizing, using and citing academic literature. The group work conducted during this seminar will directly feed into Assignment 1. Participation in this seminar is mandatory. If - for a pressing reason - you are not able to join, please notify Bart and submit the replacement exercise. You will find the group division under "Seminar 2 Groups" under the tab People.

We often read academic articles or chapters as a source of information. That's good, but there is risk that we treat such texts merely like a repository, much like an old fashioned telephone directory. However, academic texts are more than that: they have an internal structure (how the argument is built and substantiated) and they are part or larger academic structure (the field in which they are embedded, what they cite and how they are cited, whose ideas they corroborate or argue against).

The purpose of this seminar is to 'dissect' an academic text (much like a biologist may dissect a plant or animal): to see what the text entails, how it is structured and whether it stacks up? Each group is assigned a text prior to this seminar.

The seminar is dedicated to giving your group time to dissect that text by answering the following five questions.

What is the argument made in the text?
How is the argument substantiated?
Is the argument convincing (and why)?
Do you have any comments or reflections on the argumentation?
How significant do you consider the text in terms of its uptake in academic debate (e.g. the level of citations).

To assess citations (during the seminar and for assignment 1), we will be using be using Scopus (accessible here via the GU library) and/or Web of Science (accessible here via GU library).

For our exercise on inserting references:

For the exercise on the reference list:

I will ask you to place your answers in tabular form on pages linked to this (editable) page:

Page Group 1 (Zaika et al 2018).
Page Group 2 (Mountz 2011).
Page Group 3 (Kelly 2006).

These answers form the core of your assignment 1, which will build on this exercise by doing the same thing for both: 1) articles cited in this text, and 2) articles that cite this text.

After a brief intro, we will divide into groups. In the second half of the seminar, each group will briefly present their answers to the rest of the class.