An Introduction to the Topics, Audiences, and Discourse Conventions of a Scholarly and Professional Community This assignment asks students to conduct rhetorical analysis of journals and scholarly conversations in professional and technical communication journals. Related Concepts Authority & Credibility – How to Be Credible & Authoritative in Research, Speech & Writing; Occasion, Exigency, Kairos – ...
The goal of this final assignment is to address the research question, “What Methodological Communities, Research Methods, and Epistemological Assumptions Inform Theory, Research and Scholarship in PTC?” Definition of Terms In order to complete this assignment, you need to understand the following terms. Methodological Analysis Students engage in methodological analysis of the corpus to determine ...
Based on the scholarly research you have conducted throughout this semester, create an evidence informed AI Policy Statement. Beyond stating explicitly if/when/and how students can use generative AI tools for school work, explain the why your recommended policies. This will provide authority to your recommendations for critical audiences — students and teachers who want to ...
This is a three-week exercise with two steps: Step #1: Integrate Existing Course Articles into a Review Working in teams, write a literature review that incorporates the sources we already referenced: Step #2: Establish Teams to Research Other Pertinent Topics Sign up for a Team. These should be new teams. Each team will engaged in ...
Writing Prompt You’ve already: Now, your task is to pull together these insights into a concise, 5–7 minute presentation. Rather than simply summarizing the three articles again, you will extrapolate what these articles reveal about: Instructions Submission Instructions
The Creative Challenge For this project, you may work individually or collaboratively. You may develop a topic to research by considering the articles published in PTC journals that you and your peers reviewed for the second and third creative challenges. The research question may be based on your critiques or their peers’ critiques of studies ...
The Creative Challenge – Report Research Findings & Reflect on Research Methods This final creative challenge consists of three major deliverables that build upon your earlier research proposal. The research findings report and the methodological reflection are equally weighted in terms of grading, with the peer presentation contributing to your overall assessment. Research Findings Report ...
Introduction to the Creative Challenge In this third assignment, you will apply and extend the analytical skills developed in your previous work—Rhetorical Analysis of PTC Research Journals and Information Visualization: How Do Epistemological Assumptions Shape the Research Practices of Methodological Communities?—to examine the internal structures of individual research articles in the field of Professional and ...
Introduction to the Creative Challenge Imagine setting out on an expedition through unfamiliar terrain. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Vogons—bureaucratic aliens with a flair for bad poetry—demolish Earth to clear a path for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur Dent survives, not because he planned ahead, but because his alien friend Ford Prefect yanked ...
For this creative challenge, you will continue analyzing the three studies you analyzed in the previous challenge: In the previous challenges you conducted rhetorical analysis, genre analysis, and citation analysis of three research studies published in a PTC journal, analyzing how the investigators shaped research questions, wrote literature reviews, integrated citations, designed methods and gathered ...
