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EN102-032 Heather Wyatt, Sara Whitver In-Person

Option 2: Methods for Approaching Research

This lesson corresponds with The Norton Field Guide to Writing 4th Edition, P281-284 Writing as Inquiry; Norton P289-297 Generating Ideas and Texts

In this session, students will learn how to analyze a topic, use reference resources, and develop a search strategy for finding sources for their writing assignments.

This class will cover:

  • how to  narrow a topic and brainstorm topic ideas
  • how to identify key concepts and controlled vocabulary
  • how to use reference tools 
  • how to select search terms and develop a search strategy

Learning outcomes:

  1. Students will break a topic down into smaller components in order engage in the iterative process of narrowing a research question.
  2. Students will select terms related to their key concepts in order to develop a search strategy.
Date:
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Time:
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Gorgas 204F
Event Type :
EN 102
Categories:
  Humanities Instruction  

Session Organizer

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Sara Whitver

Sara Maurice Whitver is the Digital Humanities Librarian at The University of Alabama Libraries and liaison librarian for the Departments of English and Philosophy.  She joined the faculty at University of Alabama Libraries in 2012. Her academic background is in Digital Rhetoric and her research examines the ways in which people engage in posthuman worldbuilding and create space for their community on social media platforms. She is interested in reducing the barriers to digital humanities by exploring a combination of out of the box and minimal computing workflows that allow scholars to produce quality projects without having to become experts in computer programming.  She leads the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at the University of Alabama Libraries.

 

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