Daily Notes, Monday April 18

Monday April 13, 2011

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1.         Submission problems and changes. Comments not working well on PDFs; new version of Scribd not allowing me to download .doc files. So, I’m getting back to people as soon as possible with the grade, but you do have my comments. After reading through several papers, I think emailing papers will make more sense. Other projects may still require posting through the blog, and we will deal with those individually. Portfolio grade for revised portfolio will replace the grade for paper #1.

2.         IRB overview and Q&A. If you want to audio/video record, you must get that permission.

3.         Discuss research instruments.

4.         While I’m chatting with groups, Examine some samples of qualitative writing (linked through Portfolio). In groups of 3, examine how the author describes her or his research. How does the author introduce their project? How does the author write up their research methods? How does the author write up their results? How does the author write up their discussion? Please post your group’s discussion to the blog. Title it “qualitative example x” (use the author of your piece in place of “x”), label the post “in-class” and your class section number.

5.         For Wednesday, a bit of a change. I still want you to bring a draft that is about 2 pages long. What we will focus on is the review of literature, so draft an introduction that will review the sources (minimum of 3 remember) that you are using in your research.