Course Specific Research Support for WR 222: Home
Writing Research Papers course outcomes related to research skills:
- WR 222 CCOGSuccessfully organize and manage an extended, research-based, thesis-centered essay of 3500-5000 words (or an equivalent word count in shorter essays) using MLA, APA, or other appropriate documentation styles
Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving in the context of research by showing observational skills, drawing reasonable inferences from a variety of sources, perceiving and establishing relationships among multiple sources, as well as evaluating and analyzing the structure and organization of sources and own writing
Independently locate, examine, select, evaluate, and use various primary and secondary sources (including academic, printed, electronic, and interview-based)
Practice and demonstrate skills necessary to research writing, such as paraphrase, summary, direct quotation, citation and documentation
Understand the ethics of research and avoid plagiarism
Suit writing style and research material to intended audience and purpose
Demonstrate control of research and voice to make an original claim
Other indicators of required research or information seeking:
From the Course Description:
This course uses extensive research writing to develop skills in critical analysis and documented argument. Students synthesize their considered response to designated text(s) and/or issues with the reactions of other writers. Students gain experience locating and using sources via library catalogs, professional databases and other forms of research. Includes paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and documenting, using style appropriate to discipline researched.
From the Outcome and Assessment Strategies:
- At least one research-based, thesis-centered, appropriately documented essay of 3500-5000 words (or an equivalent word count in shorter essays)
- An annotated bibliography (or equivalent)
From the Course Content:
- Examine and discuss issues of plagiarism, ethics of research writing, credibility, authority, and self-directed learning
- Advance the concepts of independent study and research, self-knowledge, and the ability to assess own work critically
- Engage in inference, analysis, synthesis
- Solve problems involved in an extended writing project
- Perceive, connect, and integrate a variety of sources and positions, and establish own ideas in such a context
- Demonstrate an awareness of audience
- Recognize the distinction between scholarly (or peer reviewed), professional, commercial, and other forms of writing and resources
Bridging competencies to support research and information seeking at this level:
- Ability to identify intended audience of various sources
- Ability to use various search interfaces in different databases
- Understand when and how to use interlibrary loan
Corresponding research and information seeking outcomes for WR 222
1. Pursue research using primary sources
2. Locate published sources which reflect various points of view
3. Select relevant and authoritative sources of evidence (statistics, studies, interviews, government data)
4. Use peer-reviewed articles to identify components of the scholarly conversations taking place
5. Follow proper MLA format for incorporating and citing sources
6. Select and incorporate sources to write for a clearly defined audience
Librarian Instructional Objectives:
1. Interpret thesis statement into search strategy language, using discipline-specific search terms and identify potential sources of data outside the library (interviewees, video, current researchers)
2. Define the diction which indicates points of view on a topic and use to search in relevant library databases
3. Identify strategies for verifying authority of sources
4. Limit to peer-reviewed sources when searching library databases and determine the focus of the research discussed
5. Correct common mistakes in generated citations to proper MLA format
6. Identify indicators of audience
Placement of courses on an Information Literacy Continuum
Courses | Instructional Stages | Student's Developmental Stage |
---|---|---|
|
Connecting to College |
1. I know where the library is located and about some of the services provided. |
WR 90 |
Information Seeking |
2. I can identify a topic, and identify useful information sources to read about it. |
WR 115 |
Information Literacy Skills |
3. I can develop a topic statement, locate and use library sources, and begin informational research. |
WR 121
|
Academic or Career/ Technical Related |
4. I evaluate the sources I have found for relevancy to my field, and I know who some of the experts are. |
WR 122 WR 227 |
Inquiry and Exploration for Research |
5. I can identify pro- and con-positions on a topic. I can identify the perspectives of various experts in a field. |
WR 123 WR 222 |
Discipline- or Area of Study Specific |
6. I can support my position on an issue with evidence. I can accurately summarize the scholarly or professional conversation. |
Writing courses with outcomes related to research and information seeking
Librarian Liaison to the Writing SAC (Subject Area Committee)
Contact: Alan Cordle, Librarian at the Cascade campus
Librarian subject collectors for: Writing
Campus Librarians, supporting Writing-related subjects research
- Cascade : Rachel Bridgewater
- Rock Creek: Sara Robertson
- Southeast: Roberta Richards
- Sylvania: Alan Cordle
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To update Course outcomes, contact: Pam Kessinger