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Week 1 (Jan 20 – 25): Academic and Scholarly Audiences
Students as Scholars program
Discussion Post 1: Introductions
Week 2 (Jan 26 – Feb 1): Consensus and Controversy
Discussion Post 2: Scholarly Controversies and Arguments
Readings: Daniel Dennett: "Show Me the Science"
Lisa Randall: "Dangling Particles"
Audience Assignment
Week 3 (Feb 2 – 8): Evaluating Sources
Discussion Post 3: Wikipedia Sources
Discipline Awareness I assignment
Week 4 (Feb 9 – 15): Plagiarism and Use
of Sources
Discussion Post 4: Plagiarism Policies
Plagiarism Policy Essay
Week 5 (Feb 16 – 22): Finding a Topic
Discussion Post 5: Research Questions
Research Proposal
Week 6 (Feb 23 – March 1): Research Methods
Using the Library and Databases
Discussion Post 6
Library Research Assignment
Week 7 (March 2 – 8): Summary, Paraphrase,
Quotation, and Synthesis
Discussion Post 7: Paraphrase practice
Summary Assignment
Week 8 (March 9 – 15): Spring Break
Week 9 (March 16 – 22): Evaluation and Documentation
Discussion Post 8
Annotated Bibliography
Week 10 (March 23 – 29): Literature Reviews
UNC Lit Review Handout
Discussion Post 9
Week 11 (March 30 – Apr 5): Synthesis and Analysis
Discussion Post 10: Lit Review Thesis
Peer Review Assignment
Week 12 (Apr 6 – 12): Conclusions and Arguments
Discussion Post 11
Literature Review
Week 13 (Apr 13 – 19): Revising, Editing, Proofreading
Discussion Post 12
Week 14 (Apr 20 – 26): Next Steps
Wikipedia Edit
Week 15 (Apr 27 – May 3):
All revisions due by April 27
Discipline Awareness II assignment
Week 16 (May 4): Reflections on Research Project
Reflections due
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