learning that leads to reading, which leads to writing, which leads to research

earning, reading, writing, and research all involve similar

THE ANNOTATIONS (SUMMARY, ASSESSMENT, REFLECTION)

An annotated bibliography is a basic summary of the main ideas,

Mind mapping and outlining.

Everyone’s Google is Different

Purdue OWL

brainstorming search terms

we can build on your prior knowledge and add to your schema of research databases, search terms, and evaluating the credibility of sources.

every time we research it can looks a little different

“How” and “Why,” the two most “critical” questioning words.

a question that will give you the best approach to your research?

engage you with reading, writing, and research situations that matter to you—because remember, that’s how you learn best

students come to see learning not as reading, memorizing, and providing the correct answer.

College research should be driven by open-ended questions that seek to expose real issues or problems

Curiosity, Engagement: Develop your personal interests, passions, and experiences related to larger social issues into open-ended “Inquiry Questions” to guide your entire research process. Connect your ideas to those of other authors.

Revision is the real work of writing and is the most time consuming step of the writing process.

Free yourself from concern of staying on topic or making sense

for 30 minutes, remove all distractions (the phone with the alarm on it?!) and write continuously.

Be open to new ideas and deeper understandings of the topic that you generate from working on your writing in steps

Take breaks to avoid being overwhelmed and losing focus.

thoughtful, expressive writing is a process that takes time since thinking and expressing your thoughts, and considering and developing your ideas takes time.

Accepting all offers means to be open to the feedback you are receiving, which you take and then evaluate it to see if and how you will use in your revision plan.

We will engage in various forms of peer feedback in our class over the term.

Discovering new information about your topic can occur at any point in the writing process.

Taking a step away from your writing plan and looking at it after a pause

create a list of them.

Using these types of graphic organizers, you can free associate, link ideas together, and add analysis as you work with your ideas

find YouTube videos and other more visual ways of organizing any information you read

hypothes.is for you to practice actively reading and annotating on screen as you read, as well as respond to others who may have a different understanding or interpretation than you.

I have always used personalized symbols in the margins of texts, like a star for ideas I like, a “Q” for Quotes I may use in my essays or papers, a “!” for an alarming or surprising idea. I often use ? for difficult or confusing concepts that I want to return to later, if I still don’t understand it by the time I’m finished reading the article or chapter. Or I’ll use that annotated question as a chance to engage in discussion with others and better understand the text later in class, with the help of my colleagues

annotation as dialogue

your experiences, your memories, your knowledge from other literature, other courses, and other texts – are all very important to bring to your reading process.

When you are more active in your own reading process, you not only comprehend and retain the information better — reading becomes dynamic and interactive.

Just like when you’re in a conversation with a new person, and you pick up on their nonverbal cues, mannerisms, and conventions, reading like a writer involves picking up on the language choices, audience, purpose and main message of the writer, as well as the way in which the writer presents those moves within a particular structure, style, and set of conventions

ways that the author or publisher of a text made certain words or ideas stand out — whether they are bolded, underlined, or italicized; if there are Text Boxes that make the concept or idea stand apart from the rest of the text; and/or if there are images to add meaning to a certain concept, idea, or section of a text.

mind mapping,

whether the whole arrangement makes sense

meanwhile, recommends bringing a second adult into the classroom, someone with a different point of view, in order to remind students that the teacher’s perspective isn’t the last word

small groups offers a chance “to gain confidence and to develop a position collectively

Even a marvelously gifted teacher can’t always figure out the right question to ask a given student at just the right time

A question-based approach to teaching tends to shade into learning that is problem

pursuing questions about which we’re genuinely curious than those handed to us by someone else.

By inviting their questions, we unleash the power of intrinsic motivation

Talk less, ask more

To structure learning around such questions is to take the first step toward creating an environment

new questions arise along with better ways of asking them

Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam?

no definitive right answer can be found at all

explore the role of questions

The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers.

education by asking questions about the process of doing so.

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