The purpose of this forum is to give you an opportunity to develop relationships with your peers, develop your critical reading skills, and develop your understanding of research writing.

The purpose of this forum is to give you an opportunity to develop relationships with your peers, develop your critical reading skills, and develop your understanding of research writing.

 

SKILLS

This discussion will help you practice the following skills:

 

use attributive tags to introduce sources and integrate source material into your writing and distinguish your writing and thinking from the writing and thinking of others;

distinguish between direct quotes, paraphrase, and summary and determine which is most appropriate for certain research situations;

use an MLA Style guide to assist you in formatting Works Cited page entries and in-text citations;

distinguish between credible and not credible sources and accurate and inaccurate information using cross referencing and other strategies;

apply your critical reading strategies by learning from the interpretations of others;

compose initial responses that address the prompt in full; and

respond substantively to your peers’ posts.

KNOWLEDGE:

This module will help you become familiar with the following content:

 

understand the importance of community in successful learning environments;

understand the structure of a research paper; and

understand how evaluate and revise your writing and the writing of others to satisfy the criteria for a research paper.

Task

Read the student sample research paper by following this linkLinks to an external site.. The link will take you to a Google Doc you can edit. Use the highlight and comment tools in Google Docs to identify the context, focus, effective attributive tags, supporting examples, and correctly formatted in-text citations in the paper, if present, and offer an assessment of each based off of your understanding of research writing, MLA style, and the rubric for Research Paper 1. Avoid highlighting entire paragraphs.

 

You are not experts and are not expected to be. This is intended to develop your understanding of research writing and what is expected of you in a low-stakes collaboration.

 

After you have marked the document, summarize your assessment of the paper, assign it a grade based on that assessment and the rubric, and ask any questions you have about the paper and research writing in general in an initial post in the discussion forum.

 

After you have posted your initial assessment, please respond to at least three of your peers’ posts by Sunday. Respond substantively.

 

PROCESS

Read, mark up, and assess the student sample paper in Google Docs.

Post your initial response by Wednesday.

Read all of your classmates’ posts (that were posted by Wednesday).

Reply to at least three of these posts by Sunday. Make reference to something that was mentioned in that individual’s initial post as part of your response.