consumers seminar1 summer1_2013
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+GLIT 6756Literacy & Inquiry:Teachers as Informed Consumers of Literacy Research
Colin Lankshear & Michele [email protected] & [email protected]
+Research as systematic inquiry
p. 29 of your textbook
+Relationship of Research Logic to Evaluation TemplateContext of study (purpose,
question, problem area, relevant other research)
Framework (theory and concepts)
Design and methodology
The evaluative template (Appendix 1 in your syllabus)
+Tasks for today
Forming work groups (teams) & sending names and email addresses to Michele & Colin
Kitting up (key resources for the semester)
Becoming familiar with the evaluative template
Locating a literacy research-based paper to critique (that all members of a group can “relate to”)
+Forming work groups
Ideally 4-6 members
Likely to share some common interest to help with article selection
Likely to be able to work together online and offline and contribute equally to the final analytic paper
+Kitting up
Using Google Drive to write collaboratively (http://drive.google.com )
Using the internet to communicate between meetings (e.g., Google+ Hangout, Skype, or messenger/chat, blog, Twitter, email, Delicious or Pinterest)
Resources for finding a suitable article (e.g., http://scholar.google.com ; MSVU online article archives)
+Using Google Drive
+Google Docs
+Google Docs (cont.)
+Google Docs (cont.)
Title your document here
+Google docs (cont.)
Share your Google Doc with Colin and Michele:
+Using Scholar Google as a meta-search engine
Select “Scholar
Preferences”
+Scholar Google (cont.)
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+Scholar Google (cont.)
+Finding a focus articleThe article must be relevant to literacy
studies.
The article must be a peer-reviewed and formally published research article.
Ideally published within the past 5 years.
You need to be truly interested in the focus of the article. Focus must be good and “meaty”
The focus of your article needs to have a prior history of research (i.e., be part of a research area or field)
Your final paper must engage with debates, present an argument, and include critique (your group needs to take a theorised position and you’ll be reading well beyond your focus article)
+Course website & additional resources
https://sites.google.com/site/ourmsvupages/summer1-
2013
There are 3 examples of final papers posted here.