Week 6:
- Dates: Wednesday, 10/9 and Tuesday, 10/15 (College is closed Monday, 10/14)
- Meeting Info: Each week, I will post an agenda that will outline the week’s work. It will include instructions for you and links to readings, discussion questions, and other work. We will work on developing community both in our classroom and in our online written community.
Objectives
- To begin our next project, we will consider how to use writing and research to address what matters.
To Do Before Week 6
Just in case you haven’t already, please:
- Catch up on any readings or discussions you’ve missed–you can review the Weekly Class Agendas to see what we covered. Any late work for the first half of the semester must be completed before midsemester, which is at the end of Week 7. This includes the Introductions discussion and submitting Project 1: Education Narrative and the reflective cover letter (paper copy distributed in class)
To-Do This Week
Wednesday, 10/9: Getting started with research
Texts:
- PDF of readings
- NYTimes Newsletter: “What’s the Future for A.I.?” by Cade Metz
- Article: “The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof” by Julia Rosen
- Article: “Heat Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions in Lost Productivity” by Coral Davenport
- Blog: “2024 Employee Well-Being Trends” by Erin Seaverson
- Compilation Article “Election 2024: What’s at Stake for Business and the Workplace?” by Rachel Layne
- Reading/Writing Resource Presentation “What Is Research?” by Prof. Carrie Hall
Writing:
- Finish Project 1 and reflective cover letter if you haven’t already
- Contribute to the discussion about what matters to these authors in this week’s texts, and what matters to us.
In Class:
- What are some trending topics that you are interested in or that you think will be important to think about as you pursue your major and career?
- teamwork
- imagination, innovation
- environmental awareness and how your career can make a difference
- work styles, habits, interpersonal communication
- plants
- taxes, retirement, income
- housing, zoning, affordable housing, rent stabilization,
- focus vs social media
- In groups, consider your assigned article. Work together to answer the questions about your article:
- Context: Author’s name, publication date, publication venue
- Summarize this article in one sentence.
- What are three significant points in the article?
- What is one useful or important passage from this article?
- What are your thoughts about the passage? Why did you choose it?
- What is one question you have now that you have read and thought about this article?
- Sayback about our readings:
- NYTimes Newsletter: “What’s the Future for A.I.?” by Cade Metz
- Article: “The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof” by Julia Rosen
- Article: “Heat Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions in Lost Productivity” by Coral Davenport
- Blog: “2024 Employee Well-Being Trends” by Erin Seaverson
- Compilation Article “Election 2024: What’s at Stake for Business and the Workplace?” by Rachel Layne
- What matters to us related to the topics raised in our readings?
- how do these topics intersect with built environment majors and careers?
- Freewriting, brainstorming, collaborating about our ideas for research topics
- What’s a topic that you want to think about more? Brainstorm about it for a few minutes on your page
- on your page: What do you know about the topic?
- What do you want to know about the topic? what questions do you have?
- Research: take these 5 minutes to do some research to answer a question you have or to look into something you want to know more about.
- sayback: what topics did we choose and what did we learn?
- “What Is Research?” by Prof. Carrie Hall
- What topics do we want to consider for Projects 2 and 3?
- Research questions
- Research
- For next class: What are some useful places to learn about your field? Who or what should you read/listen to/follow? Share this information in our Discussion on who we should read so we have things to read for Tuesday’s class!
Monday, 10/14: College Closed
Tuesday, 10/15: Research for the Reflective Annotated Bibliography
Texts:
- Article: “The A.I. Revolution Will Change Work. Nobody Agrees How” by Sarah Kessler
- Article: “AI isn’t here to take your job, but help you work better” by Krish Ramineni
- Crowd-sourced Readings Based on Research Brainstorm–chosen by students at the end of Wednesday’s class
- Video: “Writing an Annotated Bibliography” (City Tech Library)
- Reading/Writing Resource Essay: “Annotated Bibliography Breakdown” (Purdue OWL)
- Reading/Writing Resource: City Tech Library’s Guide to Developing a Research Question to help you narrow down and finalize your research question
Writing:
In Class:
- Reviewing Project 2 instructions and Project 2 details
- What is an annotated bibliography?
- what is a bibliography? why do we use them?
- what is an annotation? why do we use them?
- Getting started with Project 2
- what are our 4-6 topics?
- who is doing which?
- how do our topics intersect with your major, key interests, or career path? let’s do some brainstorming.
- What question might you want to pursue for Project 2?
- rising sea levels and building styles; materials of the future; building materials and how they affect health;
- how do we start narrowing down the topic?
- what do we need to know about, and what questions do we need to ask?
- Continue thinking about your topic before we meet again. We’ll work in class on the introduction in which you:
- Introduce your research topic and question.
- Explain how or why you got interested in your question.
- Explain what you already know as a foundation for your research.
- Explain what you expect to find in your research (a hypothesis).
- Write this in paragraph format (1-3 paragraphs, approximately 300 words)
Photo credit: “Research” by Thomas Hawk via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0.
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