Technical Writing & Presentation

Department of Industrial Automation

Dr. – Ing. DO, Manh Cuong

Add: C9 – 104, Ha Noi University of Science and Technology,
No 1 Đại Cồ Việt Str.
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Peeraer and Petergem 2015
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Peeraer, Jef and Van Petegem, Peter. 2015. ‘Integration or
transformation? Looking in the future of Information and
Communication Technology in education in Vietnam’,
Evaluation and Program Planning, vol. 48, pp. 47–56
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Before you read: Jigsaw technique

1. What type of text is it? How do you know?

2. What question are they exploring?

3. What will you read first, second, third? Why?

4. How is this text different to a newspaper article?

5. How is this text different to a book chapter?

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Predict the structure of a typical academic journal article
Finish this list:
1. Title and authors
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Future research
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Listen and fill in any gaps
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Answers: Predict the structure of a typical academic text
1. Title and authors
2. Abstract
3. Introduction
4. Theoretical framework
5. Research objectives
6. Methodology
7. Results
8. Discussion
9. Conclusion
10. Future research
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Is the structure of this article the same as a typical structure?
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Answers: is the structure of this

article the same as a typical
structure?
1 Introduction
2 Future of ICT and education
3 Research objectives
4 Research methodology
5 Findings
6 Conclusions and discussions
7 Reflection on lessons learnt
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Before you dive in: consider the authors
1. Read the authors’
biographies at the Jef Peeraer and Peter Van
end of the article. Petegem
2. Do a quick Google
search and discover
what they are doing
now.
3. What kinds of biases,
affiliations or funding
sources do they have
that could influence
their findings?
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Before you dive in: consider the title

‘Integration or transformation? Looking in the future of
Information and Communication Technology in
education in Vietnam’

1. What do you already know about this topic?

2. What do you think is the ‘future of Information and
Communication Technology in education in Vietnam’?
3. What sort of methodology do you think the authors
will implement?
4. What do you assume the authors will find?
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Skim and scan: are your predictions

correct?
Quickly skim and scan
Peeraer and Van
Petegem’s article.
1. What methodologies
did the authors use?
2. What are their
findings?
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Answers: are your predictions correct?

1. They used a self-reporting questionnaire to

783 participants in 5 Teacher Education
Institutions (TEIs)
2. There is currently a gap between government
policy, vision statement of TEIs and the
practice of teaching.
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Consider and discuss

1. Do you agree with

Peeraer and Van
Petegem’s findings?

2. Can you think of

any drawbacks of
their methodology?