What is academic research? How can it enrich my proposed project?
Today we will begin in Disciplinary Groups. (Advisors, please be prepared to direct student to new locales and take attendance using your tab on the spreadsheet.) Addie will be meeting with all students who have not yet met with her for the Annotation and Inference workshop. Please, please work to review proposals and update Jupiter. We are looking forward to having ALL approved proposals!!
DO NOW: Prepare all materials, tabs, notes, links, and wonders for today. Begin setting your studio time goal and plan for the day.
ORGANIZATION...how do you do?: In pairs or small groups, share out your strategies for organizing your questions, readings, notes, annotations, and more for the research phase. Do you have a notebook? Document? All in EasyBib? What's your workflow? After sharing in small groups, collect the best strategies (the ones you want to steal) for the good of the group.
STUDIO TIME GOAL SETTING:
- Set a goal for studio time: What will you complete/revise by the end of IDEAS Project Block today? [Suggestion: Read and annotate one source.]
- Write a work plan for studio time: What steps will you need to take, in order to complete your goal? What resources will you use? [Suggestion: See yesterday's steps.]
- Set a stretch goal for studio time: If you finish your goal, what will you do next?
REFLECTION: Create a short list of information from your research that should engage an audience in thinking about your topic/question/project. A list of three "things" and where they came from would be lovely. "Things" might include statistics, historical events, quotes, headlines, theories, definitions, and more.
Example - According to a 2011 Rolling Stone biography Run-D.M.C. is responsible for taking "hardcore hip-hop from an underground street sensation to a pop-culture phenomenon."TOMORROW: We will spend time reporting out on our research findings!
