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GLIT 6756: Becoming Informed Consumers of Literacy Research Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel c.lankshear@yahoo.com & michele.knobel@msvu.ca

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Research as systematic inquiry p. 29 of your textbook

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Relationship of Research Logic to Evaluation Template <ul><li>Context of study (purpose, question, problem area, relevant other research) </li></ul><ul><li>Framework (theory and concepts) </li></ul><ul><li>Design and methodology </li></ul><ul><li>The template summary </li></ul>

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Tasks for today <ul><li>Forming work groups (teams) & sending names and email addresses to Michele & Colin </li></ul><ul><li>Kitting up (key resources for the semester) </li></ul><ul><li>Working through the template </li></ul><ul><li>Practising with the template in work groups </li></ul><ul><li>Locating a literacy research-based paper to critique (that all members of a group can “ relate to ” ) </li></ul>

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Forming work groups <ul><li>Ideally 4-6 members </li></ul><ul><li>Likely to share some common interest to help with article selection </li></ul><ul><li>Likely to be able to work together online and offline and contribute equally to the final analytic paper </li></ul>

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Kitting up <ul><li>Using Google Docs to write collaboratively ( http://docs.google.com ) </li></ul><ul><li>Using internet to communicate between meetings (e.g., www.skype.com or messenger/chat, blog, Facebook, email) </li></ul><ul><li>Resources for finding a suitable article (e.g., http://scholar.google.com MSVU online article archives) </li></ul>

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Using Google Docs

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Google Docs (cont.)

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Google Docs (cont.)

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Google Docs (cont.) Title your document here

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Google docs (cont.) <ul><li>Share your Google Docs with Colin and Michele: </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] </li></ul>

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Using Scholar Google as a meta-search engine Select “Scholar Preferences”

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Scholar Google (cont.) Write out uni name in full

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Scholar Google (cont.) Place check mark in box

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Scholar Google (cont.)

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Critiquing Gainer article <ul><li>In groups, work through the Gainer article, using the analytic template found in Appendix 1 of your syllabus to guide your evaluation </li></ul><ul><li>Discuss as a whole group </li></ul><ul><li>This is a sampling of the kind of process you’ll go through for your final paper </li></ul>

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Finding a focus article <ul><li>The article must be relevant to literacy studies. </li></ul><ul><li>The article must be a peer-reviewed and formally published research article. </li></ul><ul><li>Ideally published within the past 5 years. </li></ul><ul><li>You need to be truly interested in the focus of the article. Focus must be good and “ meaty ” </li></ul><ul><li>The focus of your article needs to have a prior history of research – be part of a research area or field </li></ul><ul><li>Your final paper must engage with debates, present an argument, and include critique (your group needs to take a theorised position and you’ll be reading well beyond your focus article) </li></ul>

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Course website http://sites.google.com/site/ourmsvupages/pei-fall-2011 There are 3 examples of final papers posted here.