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:

To-Do This Week

Wednesday, 10/9: Getting started with research

Texts:

Writing:

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:
  • 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:

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.