It is totally OK if you are out of practice from reading a scholarly article or maybe you are reading within a discipline that is new to you (e.g., you are a residential life professional but you are a reading an article relevant to your work written by a college health professional). It's awesome that you are stretching your skills to read and research within a companion field or in a cross-disciplinary manner.
Student Affairs comprises a vast range of departments, functions, and services, so there is a lot out there that will be new and helpful to you.
Below are a handful of videos or tutorials that will refresh your skills and plans for reading a scholarly article.
Don't be shy about reaching out to a colleague for support or to Professor Alex Gallin-Parisi to help walk you through an article.
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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Self-guided tutorial to learn more about the parts of a typical research article and how you might use the information from each section in your own writing from NC State Libraries
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How to Read a Scholarly Article
7-minute video in which faculty members describe their steps when they read scholarly articles from NC State Libraries
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How to Read Scholarly Articles: Anatomy and Strategies
A guide that highlights the differences in the organization of physical/social science and humanities scholarly articles and also provides strategies for reading articles from the City Collages of Chicago Libraries.
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Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Self-guided tutorial describing each section of a scholarly article from University of Arizona Libraries
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Reading a Scholarly Article
A step-by-step list describing how to read a scholarly article from Brown University Library