The document outlines the objectives and tasks for a literacy and inquiry course led by Colin Lankshear, focusing on becoming critically informed consumers of peer-reviewed research. It details the formation of work groups, resources for finding suitable articles, and the use of Google Drive for collaborative writing. Key requirements for the selected articles include relevance to literacy studies and peer-review publication within the last five years.

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GLIT 6756
Literacy & Inquiry:
Becoming Critically
Informed Consumers of
Peer Reviewed Published
Research
Colin Lankshear
c.lankshear@yahoo.com

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Research as systematic inquiry
p. 29 of your textbook

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Relationship of Research Logic to the
Evaluation Template
 Context of study (purpose, question,
problem area, relevant other
research)
 Framework (theory and concepts)
 Design and methodology
 The evaluative template (Appendix
1 in your syllabus)

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Tasks for today
 Forming work groups (teams) & sending
names and email addresses to Michele &
Colin
 Kitting up (key resources for the semester)
 Becoming familiar with the evaluative
template
 Locating a literacy-related peer reviewed
research-based paper to critique (that all
members of a group can “relate to”)

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

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Kitting up
Using Google Drive to write
collaboratively (http://drive.google.com )
Using the internet to communicate
between meetings (e.g., Google+ Hangout,
Skype, or messenger/chat, blog, Twitter,
email, Delicious or Pinterest)
Resources for finding a suitable article
(e.g., http://scholar.google.com ; MSVU
online article archives)

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Using Google Drive

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Google Docs

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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.)
Share your Google Doc with
Colin and Michele:
colin.lankshear@gmail.com
micheleknobel@gmail.com

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

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Scholar Google (cont.)

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Scholar Google (cont.)
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Scholar Google (cont.)

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Finding a focus article
The article must be relevant to literacy studies.
The article must be a peer-reviewed and formally
published research article.
Ideally published within the past 5 years.
You need to be truly interested in the focus of the
article. Focus must be good and “meaty”
The focus of your article needs to have a prior history
of research (i.e., be part of a research area or field)
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)

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Course website
& additional resources
https://sites.google.com/site/recentms
vupages/mississauga-fall-2013
There are several examples of final
papers posted here.