This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Week 1 (Jan 22 – 26): Academic and Scholarly Audiences
Students as Scholars program
Writing Commons "Identifying a Conversation"
Perdue OWL "Aristotle's Rhetorical Situation"
GMU Library InfoGuide: Tackling the Discipline Awareness Assignment
Discussion Post 1: Scholarly Controversies and Arguments
Discipline Awareness I Assignment due
Week 2 (Jan 27 – Feb 2): Audience and Argument
Readings: Kohn "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation"
Discussion Post 2: Audiences
Audience Assignment due
Week 3 (Feb 3 – 9): Scholarly and Other Sources
Writing Commons "Understanding Library Resources"
GMU Library Tutorials (Scholarly and other sources; Anatomy of a Scholarly Source; UlrichsWeb database)
Discussion Post 3: Wikipedia Sources
Research Proposal due
Week 4 (Feb 10 – 16): Research Methods
Using the Library and Databases
Library Tutorials
Discussion Post 5: Library resources
Library Research Assignment due
Week 5 (Feb 17 – 23): Plagiarism and Use
of Sources
Writing Commons "Avoiding Plagiarism"
GMU Honor Code
Discussion Post 4: Plagiarism Policies
Plagiarism Policy Essay due
Week 6 (Feb 24 – March 1): Summary, Paraphrase, Quotation, Synthesis
GMU Writing Center QuickGuides
Discussion Post 6: Paraphrase Practice
Summary Assignment due
Week 7 (March 2 – 8): Documentation: APA, MLA
Writing Center QuickGuides
Perdue OWL Research & Citation
Discussion Post 7: Documentation questions
Week 8 (March 9 – 15) Spring Break
Week 9 (March 16 – 22): Extended Break
Week 10 (March 23 – 29) Evaluating Sources
Writing Commons "Evaluating Sources"
Discussion Post 8: Source Evaluations
Annotated Bibliography due
Week 11 (March 30 – April 5): Synthesis and Analysis
Writing Commons "Synthesizing Your Research Findings"
UNC Literature Review Handout
GMU Writing Center QuickGuides: Writing a Literature Review
Discussion Post 9: Literature Review subtopics
Week 12 (April 6 – 12): Drafting
GMU Writing Center QuickGuide: Improving your Draft
Discussion Post 11: Literature review thesis
Lit Review Thesis and Subtopics outline due
Week 13 (April 13 – 19): Revision
UNC Handout: "Revising Drafts"
GMU Writing Center QuickGuide: Revising
Discussion Post 12: Lit Review Conclusion
Literature Review draft (not graded--submit for feedback)
Week 14 (April 20 – 26): Next Steps
Literature Review review
Discussion Post 13: Literature Review questions
Week 15 (April 27 – May 3): Reflection
Discussion Post 14: Reflection
Week 16 (May 4 - 10)
Literature Review Assignment due
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