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Peer-review final projects: Thursday, 11/8

Final projects due in class: Tuesday,11/13

STRUCTURE OF YOUR FINAL PROJECTPreliminary Genre Analysis (including introduction)

Intro to annotated bib

Line of Inquiry paper

Paragraph describing your “gap”

Final Project discussion

Works Cited page (copy and paste the citations from your annotated bib)

Sample:

http://issuu.com/lauramartinez6/docs/final_project_sample

GUIDELINES

Last section of inquiry paper

New heading: “The Gap,” “The Missing Piece,” “A New Perspective”

Other possible headings: “Structure,” “Research Methods,” “Data Collection,” “Presenting Evidence”

Think about what sections make sense for your own paper

TO DO:

Find additional articles using the databases

If you can’t find additional articles, then you have an actual gap. How could you design a study to fill it?

FINAL PROJECT: SETTING UP A STUDY

If you were to continue exploring the gap in your research, based on the articles you’ve read in your field, what type of research would you need to include? Would you need human participants? Textual analysis? What would be the best method for gathering this data?

How would you need to organize and present your research? Use evidence from the genres you’ve analyzed. How much evidence would you need to support your claims? How would you present this evidence?

Who would you cite in your own article? As we’ve discussed in class, often times researchers start their articles by providing an overview of the current conversation. Who would you include in this overview, and why?

How would you structure your own article in this field? What sections would you have? How would you organize them? Why would this organization be useful to you and your readers?

FINAL PROJECT: CITING MORE ARTICLES

If you found articles to answer your gap, then you can add a section after your inquiry paper that says, “Filling the Gap,” or “Continuing the Conversation.”

Have a brief introductory paragraph summarizing that you have found, and then use headings to discuss your sources. You can use the structure that you used for your inquiry paper (headings, generalizations, indirect quotes, direct quotes)