Skills For the Social Sciences

Skills For the Social Sciences

Table of Contents
PART 1 (a).......................................................................................................................................3
Key academic writing style and their importance........................................................................3
Part 1 (b)..........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Part 2 Section 1................................................................................................................................3
Quantitative articles.....................................................................................................................3
Part 2 Section 2................................................................................................................................5
Qualitative articles.......................................................................................................................5
Section 3...........................................................................................................................................6
Discussion and contribution of research to the topic area...........................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

PART 1 (a)
Key academic writing style and their importance
Academic writing style can be defined as a style which express and shows skills of a
writer. It may be descriptive, analytical, critical and persuasive. Written language is called
critical and complexer than spoken language as it requires longer words and varied vocabulary.
The simplest form of writing is known as descriptive whose main aim is to give detailed
informations and facts. Descriptive type includes: identify, define, report and summarize.
Analytical includes descriptive as it requires rephrasing and reorganize informations that are
described in categories. This type of writing style includes: comparison, analysing and examine
(Norris, 2016).
Part 1 (b)
Introduction
Disability can be defined as a physical and mental condition that limits an individual's
senses, movement and activities. Children with having some type of disabilities are less likely to
continue school and if they do then they are unlikely to transition to secondary school. They have
to face several problems in learning, reading (Underwood, 2019). They cannot live the life as
like normal children. It defines problem which faces by disabled children such as deafness,
blindness etc. The selected topic for this study is disability children in schools. The main aim of
selecting this topic is to aware people about disabilities in children and problems which they
face. Providing effective solutions to remove differences between normal and disabled students
in the context of education and learning. With the help of relevant articles of the topic, it
identifies ways of promoting accessible learning spaces and also monitors the effectiveness of
the project. Persuasive writing styles is the academic style of the writing. Persuasive writing ahas
all the features of the analytical writing style but it includes the one plus point. In persuasive
writing style it has the one point of view. The writing style is mostly used in the essay and the
conclusions. Critical writing styles are commonly used by the researchers and the students. The
writing styles is used in the research and the post graduate studies. It is including the features of
the persuasive writing styles but it also has the one plus point which is different from the

persuasive writing styles. It can consider up to the two point of views while the persuasive style
would include the one point of view.
Importance of the academic writing styles
Academic writing styles are used by the researcher and the students which are pursuing
the research. Through the help of these styles the students are able to present the research work
in the presentable manner. In some case the students are not able to present their research and
these would affect their research work. So the students must use the academic styles while
performing the research. Through the research the students would clearly mention their thoughts
in the effective way. As per the psychology the students are not able to use the thoughts in the
effective manner. So the students would use these academic writing styles for improving the
performance. Through these academic writing styles students would compare, contrast and
summarize the information collected while the research.
Part 2 Section 1
Quantitative articles
Article 1. Participation’: a systematic review of language, definitions, and constructs used in
intervention research with children with disabilities
Type of research: The type of research is positivist.
Introduction: Systematic review is being done with the main aim of improving active
participation of disabled children. It will show the language which is being used by researcher
and numerical data gained in this research.
Methods: According to this article, 9 health and education databases searched. Quantitative and
numerical data extracted by using a customized form. For this thematic approach is being used in
order to know the outcomes.
Results: 5 participation themes and 9 sub themes were developed. 2 themes in which attendance
have taken active involvement were related to the participation construct. Other 3 themes
described concepts such as: activity competency, self senses and preferences.
Conclusion: The language analysis has undertaken in this study.