This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Week 1 (Jan 25 – 31): Academic and Scholarly Audiences
Students as Scholars program
Writing Commons "Identifying a Conversation"
Purdue 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 Friday Jan 29
Week 2 (Feb 1 – 7): Audience and Argument
Readings: Kohn "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation"
Discussion Post 2: Audiences
Audience Assignment due Friday Feb 5
Week 3 (Feb 8 – 14): 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
Friday Feb 12
Week 4 (Feb 15 – 21): Research Methods
Using the Library and Databases
Library Tutorials
Discussion Post 4: Library resources
Library Research Assignment due Friday Feb 19
Week 5 (Feb 22 – 28): Plagiarism and Use
of Sources
Writing Commons "Plagiarism"
GMU Honor Code
Discussion Post 5: Plagiarism Policies
Plagiarism Policy Essay due Friday Feb 26
Week 6 (March 1 – 7): Summary, Paraphrase, Quotation, Synthesis
GMU Writing Center QuickGuides
Discussion Post 6: Paraphrase Practice
Summary Assignment due Friday March 5
Week 7 (March 8 – 14): Documentation: APA, MLA
Writing Center QuickGuides
Purdue OWL Research & Citation
Discussion Post 7: Documentation questions
Week 8 (March 15 – 21): Evaluating Sources
Writing Commons "Evaluating Sources"
Discussion Post 8: Source Evaluations
Annotated Bibliography due Friday March 19
Week 9 (March 22 –28): 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 10 (March 29 – April 4): Drafting
GMU Writing Center QuickGuide: Improving your Draft
Discussion Post 10: Literature review thesis
Lit Review Thesis and Subtopics outline due Friday April 2
Week 11 (Apr 5 – 11): Revision
UNC Handout: "Revising Drafts"
GMU Writing Center QuickGuide: Revising
Discussion Post 11: Lit Review Conclusion
Literature Review drafts due Friday April 9
Week 12 (Apr 12 – 18): Next Steps
Literature Review review
Discussion Post 12: Literature Review questions
Literature Review Assignment due Friday April 16
Week 13 (Apr 19 – 25): Continuing the Discussion
Discussion Post 13: What's Next?
Wikipedia Edit due Friday April 23
All revisions due by April 25
Week 14 (Apr 26 – 30):Reflection
Discussion Post 14: Reflection
Discipline Awareness II assignment Due Friday April 30
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