I’ll be getting you feedback on your recent posts and on your focusing flowchart within the next 24 hours, so please be on the lookout for that, and use that to get started on your research for sources for your research portfolio.
Read on for the particulars of what’s due this week, but first, let me give you a bit more of the Big Picture of Unit 2.
In this Unit, you will be assembling a set of sources–representing a mix of voices of various stakeholders, a variety of source types (including primary, scholarly, and others), and a range of perspectives. Your primary tasks in this unit will be making decisions about what sources to include and becoming conversant with those sources. In this unit, we’ll focus on these elements:
- locating sources (working with the SU library databases and other tools)
- evaluating sources (assessing their value, credibility, and utility to your project)
- writing about your sources (in a couple of note-taking and discussion exercises, and in longer annotations that are part of your portfolio)
You’ll be building a research project with these and other sources down the road in Unit 3. This unit will let you take your time developing a strong foundation for that work, so that your research can be intentional, critical, and productive (and not just quote-dropping or patching together other people’s words and ideas). This will allow you to make something new, a valuable contribution to the world of knowledge on the subject you choose to explore.
So, here are this week’s tasks.
Reading:
- “Four questions to protect your organization’s culture during COVID-19
- chapters 6 and 7 of TSIS
- chapter 2 (“Forwarding”) of Rewriting
Writing and discussion work:
- 2 note-taking exercises (1 due Wednesday, and the other due Sunday)–this begins with you locating possible sources, and then working with 2 different techniques spelled out on this notetaking techniques handout
- discussion posts (your posts due Wednesday, replies to classmates’ posts due Saturday). Here’s the link to the prompts: