This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Week 1 (Jan 22 – 27): 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 28 – Feb 3): Audience and Argument
Readings: Kohn "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation"
Discussion Post 2: Audiences
Audience Assignment due
Week 3 (Feb 4 – 10): 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 11 – 17): Research Methods
Using the Library and Databases
Library Tutorials
Discussion Post 5: Library resources
Library Research Assignment due
Week 5 (Feb 18 – 24): Plagiarism and Use
of Sources
Writing Commons "Avoiding Plagiarism"
GMU Honor Code
Discussion Post 4: Plagiarism Policies
Plagiarism Policy Essay due
Week 6 (Feb 25 – March 3): Summary, Paraphrase, Quotation, Synthesis
GMU Writing Center QuickGuides
Discussion Post 6: Paraphrase Practice
Summary Assignment due
Week 7 (March 4 – 10): Documentation: APA, MLA
Writing Center QuickGuides
Perdue OWL Research & Citation
Discussion Post 7: Documentation questions
Week 8 (March 11 – 17) Spring Break
Week 9 (March 18 – 24): Evaluating Sources
Writing Commons "Evaluating Sources"
Discussion Post 8: Source Evaluations
Annotated Bibliography due
Week 10 (March 26 – 31) Synthesis and Analysis
Writing Commons "Synthesizing Your Research Findings"
UNC Literature Review Handout
GMU Writing Center QuickGuide: Writing a Literature Review
Discussion Post 9: Literature Review subtopics
Week 11 (April 1 – 7: Drafting and Revising)
Writing Center QuickGuide: Outlining
Discussion Post 10: Lit Review Thesis
Lit Review Thesis and Subtopics outline due
Week 12 (April 8 – 14):
UNC Handout: "Revising Drafts"
GMU Writing Center QuickGuide: Revising
Discussion Post 11: Lit Review Conclusion
Literature Review draft due in Peer Groups by Friday April 12
Peer Review due
Week 13 (April 15 – 21): Literature Review
Discussion Post 12: Revision Practices
Literature Review Assignment due
Week 14 (April 22 – 28): Next Steps
Editing Wikipedia
Students as Scholars program
Discussion Post 13: What's Next?
Wikipedia Edit due
Week 15 (April 29 – May 5):Reflection
Discussion Post 14: Reflection
Eligible Revisions (within two weeks of receiving a grade) due
Discipline Awareness II assignment Due
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