Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Parting Thoughts & Notes for Next Time


  1. I did not leave enough time for the second literature review. Consider fewer texts on the front end of the course. 
  2. I need to force them to work with their sources earlier. Perhaps some sort of assignment throughout the semester where they are conducting a little research.
  3. I need to force them to narrow topics much earlier than they are. Some of them still had massive, massive topics.
  4. Some of them really blew it on this last assignment by only using a couple of sources. This connects to #2.
  5. I need to consider limiting their options for topics.  Or perhaps providing them with a variety of topics they can choose from if they are having difficulty thinking of one.
  6. There should be some kind of mechanism in the workshopping of lit review 2 that forces the students to identify the debate that is being discussed.
  7. Perhaps use Weber Writes and force them to choose lit review topics out of it.

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