{"id":543,"date":"2016-02-21T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/?p=543"},"modified":"2016-06-23T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:14:45","slug":"unit-2-rsch-strategy-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/unit-2-rsch-strategy-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 2: Research Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoreyWH5e.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoreyWH5e.jpg\" alt=\"StoreyWH5e\" width=\"218\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoreyWH5e.jpg 323w, https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoreyWH5e-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ChicagoTemplate.HI460.docx\">Download Paper Template Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During this unit, we&#8217;ll do less as a group with content &amp; discussion and more with working (together and individually) on beginning your research in earnest.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My goal is to help you develop and carry out a coherent, mindful and successful research strategy. Use the Storey book as your constant companion; read it more than once and mine it for ideas, and <strong>bring it to class<\/strong> each day during this unit. That doesn&#8217;t mean content goes entirely away over these three weeks &#8211; but by the end of this unit on March 9, you should have a &#8220;skeleton draft&#8221; ready to turn in. See the new &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/guidelines\/\">Project Guidelines<\/a>&#8221; tab above for all the details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 2\/22<\/strong> &#8211; Library Day. <strong>Meet in the Library Instruction Area<\/strong> inside the Children&#8217;s Literature Area on the main (2nd) floor of the library. Bring laptops and your ideas and\/or problems and questions. We&#8217;ll be working with one of our reference staff, Shu Qian, who will help us understand what library resources can help get you started. Update: now posted a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/research\/\">Research<\/a>&#8221; tab, above. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 2\/24 &#8211; Getting Started<\/strong>, meet in our regular classroom. Read Storey Ch 1-2 in preparation, bring laptops, and be ready for a working session about online research and narrowing your topic. Also by this date, make sure you have created a Portfolio page on your WordPress site. <\/p>\n<p><!-- comment\n<a name=\"protips\"><\/a>\n\n<strong>Professional tips from our Portfolio day:<\/strong> If you use Twitter, try <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tonahangen\/lists\/hist-for-undergrads\">following some history-related feeds<\/a>. Join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>, if you haven't already. Don't overlook our campus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worcester.edu\/Career-Services\/\">Career Services<\/a> office. For a one-stop professional presence, create an <a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/\">About.me<\/a> page. Consider a student membership to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historians.org\">American Historical Association<\/a>, or to its regional affiliate, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglandhistorians.org\">New England Historical Association<\/a>. I frequently recommend the book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Jobs-History-Majors\/dp\/007148213X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412958310&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=great+jobs+for+history+majors\">Great Jobs for History Majors<\/a><\/em>, and I have a lending copy in my office if you want to borrow it. --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekend Homework:<\/strong> listen to Episode 70 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benfranklinsworld.com\/\">Ben Franklin&#8217;s World<\/a> podcast&#8230; what can you learn from Dr. Morgan&#8217;s experience? What seems applicable to your own research process right now? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 2\/29<\/strong> &#8211; Library Day #2. Location: same as last week = the instructional area inside the Children&#8217;s Lit section, main floor of the library. Reading: Storey Ch 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 3\/2- Your Sources (One Week to Skeleton Draft)<\/strong>. Reading: Storey, Ch 3. <strong>J5 is due online<\/strong> &#8211; this post will be a research log of what you&#8217;ve done and consulted since our first library session on 2\/22. It does not have to be a polished narrative, it can simply be a list or you can expand with explanation, such as how you are situating your project within existing secondary literature, or how you are making sense of\/keeping track of your primary sources, or what your workflow\/process has been during your research time blocks. Due\/posted by classtime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 3\/7 &#8211; Writing Workshop (2 Days to Skeleton Draft)<\/strong>. Reading: Storey Ch 4. Bring laptops and one of your key <strong>secondary<\/strong> sources, preferably in hard copy, to share and discuss. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 3\/9 &#8211; Peer Review Day<\/strong>.<span style=\"color: #6C9619;\"><strong> Due in class: TWO printed copies of your skeleton draft!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some food for thought (maybe our motto for this unit):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-7.36.20-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-351\" src=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-7.36.20-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-10-02 at 7.36.20 PM\" width=\"628\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-7.36.20-PM.jpg 628w, https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-02-at-7.36.20-PM-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Paper Template Here During this unit, we&#8217;ll do less as a group with content &amp; discussion and more with working (together and individually) on beginning your research in earnest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-news","category-research","tag-spr16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi460\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}