Category: Instructions & Examples

Apr 23 2021

Agenda, Instructions & Examples

Week 14 Schedule of Work

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Strap in for the final blog post of the semester. Somehow it felt both incredibly slow and as fast as warp-speed, but then again: In this post, I’ll go over...

schedule, unit 1, unit 2, unit 3, week 14

Apr 10 2021

Instructions & Examples

Sources and Analysis

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By now you’ve all hopefully completed the Ethnographic Research Tutorial and begun to experiment with the Vetting Sources worksheet. As we move from Essay 3 Phase 1 to Phase 2,...

sources, unit 3, week 12

Apr 10 2021

Instructions & Examples

Three Levels of Source Use

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#AcademicTwitter recently offered these embodied metaphors about levels of engagement with sources in research writing. You may have learned in high school to “wave” at sources, where you’re citing just...

sources, unit 3, week 12

Mar 19 2021

Instructions & Examples

Nonparticipant Ethnography and Social Media

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The research project for our class is ethnographic research, a form of qualitative research in which you study a community and its practices and behaviors in order to understand something...

unit 3, week 9

Mar 19 2021

Instructions & Examples

Writing Towards Essay 2 Phase 2

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I’ve read and scored all your Essay 2 Phase 1 drafts by now, and met with a number of you already to provide feedback on those drafts. Based on these...

unit 2, week 9

Feb 19 2021

Instructions & Examples, Uncategorized

Writing Towards Essay 1 Phase 2

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First, the administrative stuff: You’ll submit your Essay 1 Phase 2 to the dropbox under Unit Portfolios on Blackboard by Friday at 5pm. As a reminder, make sure to review...

unit 1, week 5

Jan 24 2021

Instructions & Examples

Writing an Email

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Not including yours truly, too many (IMHO) professors complain about how students “don’t email correctly or professionally.” This being a writing class, I thought I would try to clear up...

emails, lifehacks, professional writing, week 1

Jan 11 2021

Instructions & Examples

Formulating Controlling Ideas

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Let’s talk about claims, or controlling ideas! You’re probably used to terms like thesis or argument, which we’ll call controlling ideas or claims. There’s no single formula for writing a controlling idea or claim, but here...

controlling ideas, instructor example, week 2