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1 Research all the way down How I Learned to Teach Writing Like a Researcher Tracy Hamler Carrick Senior Lecturer, The Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines Director, The Writing Walk-In Service Cornell University

2 Case Study Progam Development Should we offer more sections of the research- intensive First-Year Writing Seminar, Writing 1420? Curricular Development What can we take from the Writing 1420 experience to build research into First-Year Writing Seminars and enrich student proficiency in information literacy?

3 First-Year Writing Seminars Writing 7100: Teaching Writing

4 Course Sequence Writing 7100: Teaching Writing

5 Cross-Disciplinary Challenges Writers as Teachers of Writing Researchers as Teachers of Writing Writing 7100: Teaching Writing

6 Reverse Engineering the Research Project Writing 7100: Teaching Writing

7 Cross-Disciplinary Challenges Writers as Teachers of Writing Researchers as Teachers of Writing Writing 7100: Teaching Writing

8 Pedagogical Challenges FEAR TimePlagiarismExpertise

9 Pedagogical Opportunities Building Reading Skills with research Building Writing Skills with research Building Research Skills

10 Opportunities Writing Course +1 Library Orientation Writing Course +4 Library Orientation Library Workshop: Building Reading Skills Library Workshop: Orientation Redux Library Workshop: Building Writing Skills Writing Course +2 Library Orientation Library Workshop: Building Reading Skills Fully Supported Writing Course, Modified Shared Sessions with Librarian Undergraduate Peer Mentors in Writing Course Leadership Learning Outcome: Information Literacy

11 Writing Course +2 Building Reading Skills 1.Library Orientation 2.Library Workshop on Building Reading Skills Researching Authors (Learn what else this person has written or how she or others characterize her work) Google Library Catalog Researching Books Book Reviews (Learn how other scholars/experts have responded to book.) Library Catalog Book Review Digest Google Researching Websites WHOIS.com (Learn about the sponsoring person or organization) Researching Articles ISI Web of Knowledge database (Learn how often has article has been cited and where it has been cited.) Researching Key Concepts or Topics (Learn background or general information) Reference Universe Gale Virtual Reference Library Sage Reference Online Wikipedia

12 Single Source Evaluation Building Reading Skills READING Select ONE source Read it carefully In three separate paragraphs, compose a: Summary (what is this source about?) Structural Analysis (how is this source arranged?) Rhetorical Analysis (how does this author make meaning and/or persuade?) RESEARCHING Conduct some research about this source or its author Compose an additional paragraph that describes your research strategies REVISING Compose three additional paragraphs that detail what you learned about the source and/or author, and what you need to add, omit, or revise from your summary, structural or rhetorical analysis paragraphs.

13 Writing Course +4 Building Writing Skills 1.Library Orientation 2.Library Workshop on Building Reading Skills 3.Library Re-Orientation All publication formats Cornell Library Catalog (Subject Heading Searches) Google Articles Academic Search Premier Google Scholar Web of Science Summon ProQuest JSTOR Browse by Subject or Name for Discipline-specific databases Newspapers Lexis/Nexis 4.Library Workshop on Building Writing Skills Interpreting bibliographic citations Reading abstracts Conducting Subject Heading searches Refining search terms and phrases

14 Source Variation Scavenger Hunt Building Writing Skills

15 Rhetorical Features points of view disciplinary perspectives cultural perspectives genre methodologies audiences dates of publication publishers Publication Format Background resources/reference materials Books Scholarly articles Popular periodicals Websites Multimedia items

16 Writing 7100: Teaching Writing Writers as Teachers of Writing Researchers as Teachers of Writing

17 Opportunities Writing Course +1 Library Orientation Writing Course +4 Library Orientation Library Workshop: Building Reading Skills Library Workshop: Building Research Skills Library Workshop: Building Writing Skills Writing Course +2 Library Orientation Library Workshop: Building Reading Skills Fully Supported Writing Course, Modified Shared Sessions with Librarian Undergraduate Peer Mentors in Writing Course Leadership Learning Outcome: Information Literacy

18 Teaching Artifacts@http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/staff/Tracy.ht m Email @ thc33@cornell.eduhttp://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/staff/Tracy.ht m


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