Review Everyone’s an Author, Chapter 16: Reporting Information.
Brainstorm your issue/topic to help you with Module 4: Broader Community Study by answering the following:
Consider your rhetorical situation; address your audience by answering the following:
What do you know about your audience? To what extent are they like or unlike your-or one another?
What background information will your audience need on your topic? Will their knowledge of it vary?
What terms need to be defined or illustrated with examples? What sorts of examples will be most effective for your audience?
What interest does your audience have in your topic? If they are not already interested in it, how can you get them interested—or at least to see that it matters? (pp. 316).
Think about the following, then write a short comment for each: (see description on pp. 316-322).
Be clear about your purpose.
Consider your stance.
Consider the larger context.
Think about media.
Think about design.
Read the following text: Interrogating Texts: Six Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard: http://guides.library.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits
Review: FYC-ebook RWS 1302 section: Module Three: Running Research Journal
As you continue your research, consider thinking about your research habits. Now that you have started working on your CAB think about what you would do differently. Use the “Interrogating Text: Six Reading Habits to Develop…”.
Please discuss your research experience thus far. Include in your initial post the following information:
Your topic, introduction, and your research questions.
How have you implemented your Critical Annotated Bibliography Information into the next assignment?
How helpful was this preliminary assignment as scaffolding for the Broader Community Study?
What would that be if you had to change one thing in your research process? Why?
If you had to give someone advice on conducting research, from what you have learned so far, what would be your suggestions?
For the student response: (due Sunday by midnight)
As you reply to your classmates’/ writers’ selected topic/issue, explore the following points:
Discuss what you, as a reader, would like to see in the writer’s research. Explain why this would be important to their topic/issue.
What point of their discussion did you find thought-provoking and why?
Provide one suggestion for future research or perhaps a question that has not been addressed.
Add anything else that you think the writer needed to include in the topic/issue discussion.
