Capturing the online academic reading process

@article{citeulike:1661623, abstract = {Described here is a study of how students actively read electronic journal papers to prepare for classroom discussions. Eighteen students enrolled in a graduate course participated in this study; half of them read the documents privately, while the other half shared their readings. These readers were digitally monitored as they read, annotated, and shared the electronic (e-) documents over a course of several weeks during a semester. This monitoring yielded a comprehensive data bank of 60 e-documents (with 1923 markings), and 56 computer logs. Using semi-structured interviews, the reading, marking, and navigational activities of the participating readers were analyzed in detail. Under scrutiny were a range of activities that the subjects carried out. Analyses of the data revealed the types of markings that the users employ, and the ways in which those marking were placed. A derivation of the user-perceived functions of the marking structures was then carried out. The findings then lead to several implications for informing the design of reading and marking applications in digital libraries.}, author = {Qayyum, Muhammad A. }, citeulike-article-id = {1661623}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2007.05.005}, journal = {Information Processing \& Management}, keywords = {collaboration, information\_literacy, interaction, research}, posted-at = {2007-09-16 00:26:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Capturing the online academic reading process}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2007.05.005}, volume = {In Press, Corrected Proof} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1661623 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1661623 TI - Capturing the online academic reading process JF - Information Processing & Management VL - In Press, Corrected Proof N2 - Described here is a study of how students actively read electronic journal papers to prepare for classroom discussions. Eighteen students enrolled in a graduate course participated in this study; half of them read the documents privately, while the other half shared their readings. These readers were digitally monitored as they read, annotated, and shared the electronic (e-) documents over a course of several weeks during a semester. This monitoring yielded a comprehensive data bank of 60 e-documents (with 1923 markings), and 56 computer logs. Using semi-structured interviews, the reading, marking, and navigational activities of the participating readers were analyzed in detail. Under scrutiny were a range of activities that the subjects carried out. Analyses of the data revealed the types of markings that the users employ, and the ways in which those marking were placed. A derivation of the user-perceived functions of the marking structures was then carried out. The findings then lead to several implications for informing the design of reading and marking applications in digital libraries. KW - collaboration KW - information_literacy KW - interaction KW - research AU - Qayyum, Muhammad UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2007.05.005 ER -