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Weekly Course Schedule
Week 1 (May 28 – June 2)
Lesson 1: Introduction to the course
Review the course syllabus and course schedule
Finding conversations in your field – Academic and professional discourse communities
Read GMU Library Subject Guide for your field.
Watch Inform Your Thinking: Episode 1 - Research is a Conversation
Read instructions for Research Log 1: Professional Organizations and Advocacy Groups
Lesson 2: Choosing topics of interest
Read
Narrowing a Topic (to a Research Question)
Watch Developing a Research Topic and Research Question
Watch Beginning the Research Process
Post in Preliminary Research Topics due Sunday June 4
Week 2 (June 3 – 9)
Lesson 3: Reading Rhetorically – Professional Publications
Review the key terms in the lesson module
Determining types of sources/Evaluating sources
Read the following resources from the George Mason University Library.
Note that all of the following sources are charts that can also be downloaded as PDFs.
Post Trade Source Analysis (discussion) by Thursday June 6
Lesson 4: Watch: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
Watch Library Database Search Strategies
Research Log 1 and Reflection Due Sunday June 9
WEEK 3 (June 10 – 16)
Lesson 5: From topic to question – Using keywords and search terms
Read "How to Write a Research Question"
Post in Research Questions discussion by Thursday June 13
Lesson 6: Finding scholarly, peer reviewed sources
Read instructions for Research Log 2: Scholarly Sources
Read Literature Reviews
Read Writing a Literature Review
Watch Library tutorial
WEEK 4 (June 17 – 23)
Lesson 7: Reading rhetorically – Analyzing in-text citations in scholarly sources
Watch "Parts of a Reference" video and library turorials
Post Source Evaluation (discussion) by Thursday June 22
Lesson 8: Advanced citation mining strategies
Complete Library module
Research Log 2 and Reflection Due Sunday June 23
WEEK 5 (June 24 – 30)
Lesson 9 : Refining the research question
Read "Organizing a Literature Review: The Basics"
Complete Narrowing the Research Question worksheet by Sunday June 30
Lesson 10: Putting the research together--source integration
Read Research Log 3 instructions
Browse this document explaining how to build a synthesis matrix
Watch Synthesis Matrix tutorial
WEEK 6 (July 1 – 7)
Lesson 11: Source Integration and Synthesis
Read Citation Formats
Post in Final Research Question discussion by Friday July 5
Lesson 12: Synthesis
Read "Organizing a Literature Review: Advanced"
Review Research Log 3 instructions
Research Log 3 and Reflection Due Sunday July 7
WEEK 7 (July 8 – 14)
Conferences/Lit Review drafts via Zoom
Literature Review is Due Sunday July 14
WEEK 8 (July 15 – 21)
Lesson 13: Advocacy letter – Issue, Genre & Audience
Read instructions to Issue, Audience & Genre Analysis
Read Effective Advocacy Letters
Read Effective Advocacy
Read sample advocacy letters posted on Blackboard
Complete the Issue, Genre & Audience Analysis by Sunday July 21
Week 8 1/2 (July 22 - 24)
Post in Reflection discussion by Wednesday July 24 (last day of Summer B term)
Complete Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs)
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