Secondary Research Project
The goal of this project is for you to take the problem/issue/question from your intended field that you worked with in Project 2, and use it to develop an academic literature review and proposal of the genre this literature review is MEANT for (i.e. this literature review would go into a grant application, or a study proposal, or an IRB application, etc.).Literature reviews are a particular genre that helps researchers across disciplines position their work within larger scholarly conversations, so that readers can understand the relevance of a project or argument.
Often composed as parts of larger projects (to frame research proposals, as an overview of best practices, as part of a longer publication or as a standalone meta-review), writers use literature reviews to synthesize information, compare and contrast ideas, and clearly describe relationships between well-cited texts to present their own work accurately and persuasively in the context of the scholarly conversation. Ito draw on some of those methods to conduct your research for this .The skill of writing this common scholarly genre is one that will be of use to writers in nearly all disciplines. We will engage with focused analysis of this genre to develop familiarity with the specific writerly moves needed to compose it with confidence.
Learning Objectives
- Conduct secondary research to investigate a research question, problem or issue in a profession, field, or discourse community (RESEARCH).
- Analyze the genre of the literature review from the student’s discipline or profession to understand the ways professionals in the field engage with and rhetorical conventions they use to communicate their research and findings (READ).
- Use a flexible writing process and varied technologies to compose a scholarly literature review that attends to the expected organization, format, and style of the assignment ().
- Use reflective writing to describe developing knowledge about writing (especially writing in one’s discipline or profession) and about oneself as a writer (including one’s ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate one’s writing process and texts) (REFLECT).
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Task
????For this , you will continue your work with the research problem/issue/question you’ve been working with in Projects 1 and 2. For most, you will begin by presenting a brief introduction of the major historical developments contributing to this topic in your field, and then spend the rest of the Literature Review mapping out the contemporary work being done on the topic. Alternative approaches are certainly valid but should be decided in consultation with your instructor.By the time you begin working on drafting your literature review, you will have already done most of the significant work required for this project. You will have identified and revised research questions, identified key texts, created a working bibliography, and organized notes to help you synthesize sources and identify gaps, questions, problems, or tensions in the scholarly conversation.To develop a revised, literature review , we will continue to move through several smaller, yet still formal scaffolding steps:
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- Developing a detailed genre analysis of literature reviews
- Examining syntax and transitions at a sentence level
- Submitting a draft for peer review, and
- Using that peer and teacher feedback to work through – and sentence-level revision and to craft the literature review for a specific audience and purpose.
In your literature review, you will follow the standard genre conventions uncovered during our early analyses. At minimum, your review should include a discussion of the central topic you are investigating and at least two sub-topics that help you focus your research, but it can have more.As implied above, we will review examples of published literature reviews to analyze how writers organize discussions of a major topic and then help readers navigate through a set of related sub-topics. We will also discuss how to frame sources such that readers understand the “broader conversation” about these topics and sub-topics, and how to establish a “scholarly niche” for yourself–a corner of the conversation you would be interested in entering as a professional.
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Reflective Memo
“I suppose I think this reflection is so important because without it, we live the stories others have scripted for us: in a most unreflective, unhealthy way. And I think the stories we make-whether inside the classroom or out, whether externalized or not-construct us, one by one by one. Cumulatively. So I think it’s important to tell lots of stories where we get to construct many selves for us to attempt, some we continue to inhabit.”Kathleen Yancey, Reflection in the Writing Classroom, p. 53Your final for this project must also include a 350- to 500-word reflective memo addressed to either yourself or your instructor. This memo will tell the story of your learning and writing during this project. Please address the following prompts in your reflection:
- What were your personal goals for the project? How would you rate your progress toward those goals?
- How would you rate your progress toward achieving the project’s learning outcomes (listed below)?
- Tell your story of learning in this project. Relate one or more key moments from class, from your independent work, or from communicating with peers or the instructor. How has your work on this project connected with what you already knew/know? Is this what you expected to learn? Why or why not? What else do you need to learn? How will you go about learning it?
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Evaluation
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- Write an introduction that includes brief context and a mapping statement for this literature review.,
- Integrate discussion of a minimum of 8 scholarly sources relevant to your research question.,
- Write body (as many as needed) synthesizing the secondary sources you’ve located and evaluated for this project,
- Write a paragraph or two in which you indicate/propose a specific academic genre where you might plan for this literature review to go as well as providing a rationale for why this proposed genre would be a good fit for your project.,
- Cite your sources, both throughout the project and in a works cited or references section using the citation conventions appropriate to your field (I.e. MLA APA Chicago etc.),
- Design and format your project for accessibility. Use section (H1) and (if necessary) subsection (H2) headers to organize your content.,
- Revise and edit your writing preparing a clear final draft (2500-3000 words) for submission.,
- Reflect on your research and writing process and learning and compose your post-project reflective memo following the guidelines for that task., Submit your memo to Canvas along with your final version of your project
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1tynR9HbyiWmNZ-mTmep1UGMhiBqIuvXD/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
this is the intro, be sure to follow directions very carefully and relate it to the research question in my previous projects.