{"id":495,"date":"2016-01-25T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/?p=495"},"modified":"2016-06-23T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:13:42","slug":"j-1-spr16-textbook-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/j-1-spr16-textbook-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 1 Prompt: Textbook Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reminder<\/strong>: make sure you&#8217;ve completed the Research Self-Assessment, posted on Blackboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/journal-writing-clipart-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/journal-writing-clipart-1.jpg\" alt=\"journal-writing-clipart-1\" width=\"170\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-496\" \/><\/a>For your <strong>first research journal entry<\/strong> for the semester, tackle a high school or college U.S. textbook of your choice. Study how (or whether!) it covers topics involving religion. <!--more-->Your study method is up to you: maybe focus on a single event or topic, or scan the entire book, or explore where religion appears in the index. Pay attention to both the presence\/absence of religious material AND any <em>interpretation<\/em> or <em>argument<\/em> the text makes about religion&#8217;s role in American history. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Post it to your site by Wednesday, Jan 27th by the START of class<\/strong> and be ready to discuss your findings (with your textbook in hand) during class. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidelines<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p>Total word count: 600-700<\/p>\n<p>Start your entry with a FULL Chicago-Style citation of the book, as if you&#8217;re adding it to a bibliography.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss Author, Publisher, Edition \u2013 give some context, who\/what\/when &#8211; look these people up (in the book itself, online, or in a scholarly database)&#8230; who are they? <\/p>\n<p>Critique \/ analyze your textbook\u2019s coverage of religion. Use quotations (cited, of course, with relevant page numbers) to <em>provide evidence<\/em> for your critique. Discuss strengths, weaknesses, any obvious gaps or omissions. <\/p>\n<p>This can be a narrow, targeted review of a clearly delineated section or chapter, i.e. it need not be a review of the whole book.<\/p>\n<p>Offer the author some recommendations, and\/or assess whether this book is likely to increase its students&#8217; religious literacy. <\/p>\n<p>Your tone should be similar to an academic book review &#038; less like a personal response paper (if you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the genre, use your issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/raac.iupui.edu\/publications\/journal\/\">Religion &#038; American Culture<\/a><\/em> as a model). Practice writing with your best &#8220;scholarly voice.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminder: make sure you&#8217;ve completed the Research Self-Assessment, posted on Blackboard. For your first research journal entry for the semester, tackle a high school or college U.S. textbook of your choice. Study how (or whether!) it covers topics involving religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-prompts","tag-spr16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}