Unit 2: Where we’re headed
- Locating and using research
- End goal is your “Research Brief”
o very focused analysis of a single scholarly article that connects with questions you are becoming interested in as a result of your service work
Scholarly Texts
- Author is expert in the field
- Style is academic
o Narrowly defined purpose and audience
o No need for general audience appeal
- Research is significant and well-documented
- “Peer-reviewed”—other certified experts in the field have endorsed
Chapter 2, “Rewriting”
Forwarding
- When responding to a text, your not sending a response back to the author, instead you are forwarding information to others
- Content can change depending on who is forwarding information and who is receiving forwarded information
Forwarding depends on:
- Coming to terms with the text
o Define the project
o Note keywords/passages
o Assess the uses and limits (what’s useful? what are some issues?)
- Recirculation—-“rewriting”
Moves in using research
- Using texts to think about
o Illustrating- examples
o Contextualizing- historical/statistical
- Using texts to think with
o Authorizing- validation through expertise
o Borrowing- using other’s theories/terminologies
o Extending- putting your spin on concepts from other texts
Getting ready to turn in Research Brief
- Choose topic
- Find articles
- Read to be conversant
- Figure out genre
- Write it