research logs due weeks 2 and 4 -- gives them a week to use their corrections to help with next section and makes it so that not everything is due on the last day.
individual conferences at some point -- chance to talk to the students individually and get to know them a bit. chance to give individual suggestions on topics
have sample assignments for different disciplines. they have to pick one if they're not using a real assignment.
write first paragraph of paper? thesis statement?
lots of time spent learning by doing
citation exercise -- keep
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
changes to handouts
Add a step in the research process -- "Brainstorming" should go between topic selection and research questions
topic selection and research questions
Topics need to be refined: this is the point I need to get across.
Have each student do a 2 minute presentation about their topic during day 2?
Have each student do a 2 minute presentation about their topic during day 2?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
subject encyclopedias
We need to do this together in class or they will have no idea what to do. The idea is to show them how used adeptly, these can be amazing starting resources. But they are HARD to use, esp. compared with google. I find myself getting frustrated if I have to spend time searching or getting really frustrated when they don't have the variety of articles that for example wikipedia does! I find that they are only really helpful when you're doing a big topic like temperament, but for one student's topic of "stress in college students" it was completely unhelpful. Maybe I shouldn't even bother with them!!
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