Today’s Plan:
- Add a Research Article to Your Team’s Workspace
- Presentation Expectations
Add a Research Article to Your Team’s Workspace
I’m hoping this doesn’t take more than 5 minutes. I would simply like you to add a citation and a link to another research article to your team’s workspace. My theory is that, as you read and annotate scholarship, you are finding references to other studies. If you have one from a previous worknet (central or singificant) or annotation that isn’t in your team workspace, then please add it now.
Presentation Expectations
Let’s me think about presentations across three vectors: content, design, and performance.
Content
Today I’m going to ask you to meet with your team and begin mapping out commonplaces that come up in the research articles you read. That is, we want to identify some of the key questions, terms, ideas, problems, differences, etc that are circulating through your topic. For instance, I’m writing a paper about job advertisements for English majors and Writing minors. I’ve read about a dozen articles for my lit review. So I sat down today and started mapping articles, starting with key ideas and then listing which (other) articles share those ideas. I now have something that looks like this:
I’d like you to meet with your groups today and review the articles that you’ve read. Map out the various sub-topics that they cover. Look for overlaps and conflicts.
Presentation Logistics
When we have about 15 minutes remaining in class, I’ll ask you to change gears and start thinking about presentation logistics. I’ve asked for a 4-5 minute presentation; which is about 700 words (so about 3 and 1/2 pages double-spaced). I’d like you to generate a script for the presentation. And I’d like you to designate speakers for the different parts of the script. Create a PowerPoint or Google Slide to accompany your talk. Keep text on slides to a minimum (don’t just read slides).
Ideally, each team member would be responsible for writing about one or two commonplaces–liking them to articles, writing a few sentences that help us understand the term/idea/(dis)agreement, etc. You will submit presentation materials to Canvas and will give these presentations in class on Friday.
Note that the homework for Monday will be to annotate a third research article in your personal workspace.
