5.3 Determining Disciplinary Perspective

Below you will find part of the non-peer-reviewed article (Strikwerda, 2019). This annotated article provides an example of how you can determine the disciplinary perspective of a source by analyzing the publisher and the author’s credentials. You will be asked to determine the disciplinary perspective of a non-peer-reviewed article in your assignment.

Key Takeaways

• One way to determine the disciplinary perspective of an article is to look at who published the article. In this case, Inside Higher Ed is the publisher. This indicates Education as the disciplinary perspective.
• The second image shows that the author’s background is working in higher education, so this supports that the disciplinary perspective is education. It would also be useful to know what degrees he had earned.

 

References

Strikwerda, C. J. (2019, September 4). Faculty must play a bigger role in student retention and success (opinion) [Annotated]. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/09/04/faculty-must-play-bigger-role-student-retention-and-success-opinion