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Week 1 (Aug 31 – Sept 4): Academic and Scholarly Audiences
Students as Scholars program
Discussion Post 1: Introductions
Discipline Awareness I Assignment due Sept 6
Week 2 (Sept 7 – 11): Consensus and Controversy
Discussion Post 2: Scholarly Controversies and Arguments
Readings: Daniel Dennett: "Show Me the Science"
Lisa Randall: "Dangling Particles"
Audience Assignment due Sept 13
Week 3 (Sept 14 – 18): Evaluating Sources
Discussion Post 3: Wikipedia Sources
Week 4 (Sept 21 – 25): Plagiarism and Use
of Sources
Discussion Post 4: Plagiarism Policies
Plagiarism Policy Essay due Sept 27
Week 5 (Sept 28 – Oct 2): Finding a Topic
Discussion Post 5: Research Questions
Research Proposal due Oct 4
Week 6 (Oct 5 – 9): Research Methods
Using the Library and Databases
Discussion Post 6
Library Research Assignment due Oct 11
Week 7 (Oct 12 – 16): Columbus Day Recess.
Monday Classes meet Tuesday
Summary, Paraphrase,
Quotation, and Synthesis
Discussion Post 7: Paraphrase practice
Summary Assignment due Oct 18
Week 8 (Oct 19 – 23): Evaluation and Documentation
Discussion Post 8
Annotated Bibliography due Oct 25
Week 9 (Oct 26 – 30): Literature Reviews
UNC Lit Review Handout
Discussion Post 9: Lit Review Thesis
Week 10 (Nov 2 – 6): Synthesis and Analysis
Discussion Post 10
Literature Review draft due Nov 6
Peer Review Assignment due Nov 8
Week 11 (Nov 9 – 13): Conclusions and Arguments
Discussion Post 11
Literature Review due Nov 15
Week 12 (Nov 16 – 19): Revising, Editing, Proofreading
Discussion Post 12
Wikipedia Edit due Nov 22
Week 13 (Nov 23 – 24): Review
all current revisions due by Nov 24
Nov 25 – 29 Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 (Nov 30 – Dec 4): Next Steps
Discussion Post 13
Discipline Awareness II assignment due Dec 6
Week 15 (Dec 7 – 11): Reflection
SaS Reflection due Dec 12 (final day of classes)
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