Research Seminar January 11, 2007
Introduction to CENTRA and to
Nicenet; set up additional ‘practice’
time by or before 17th Jan
Library
skills beyond the obvious
Searching: strategies of crossref (aggression vs
agitation): Go for patterns/associations
Relationship
to mentor
Scut-work: the 90-10 ratio for any
researcher
Collaboration and skill set
Qualitative research – Start with the question
Quantitative research – Start with
the database
Specialized tools – lexicon, way
of citation by field
Editing issues and where to find
assistance
In the computer lab: Search strategies -- http://library.uncc.edu/find/
(we’ll
start with electronic resources – literature)
Web of Science
One of anything in LitResources
besides MLA
LLBA (will need to go to
languages&cultures or education)
Project MUSE
Find
single article on topic
Examine
first 20 connected by ‘like this’ or ‘get related’
Card
catalogue on topic: Examine subheads, synonyms
Find single book on topic: Do
cross-refs, each subhead, browse 1st ‘page’
Examples: (when there’s too little
– and when there’s too much)
Achebe and archetype
Plain English and health literacies
Paraphrase and plagiarism
Interlude
and stereotypes OR props
Bakhtin
Online lexicons part #1
MEMEM http://etext.virginia.edu/memem.query.html
OR
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/memem we’ll search just by quotation
Online literary concordances
Romantics http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm
What is text analysis
http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/html/p_desc_what_is.html
Intro to empirical approaches in rhetoric
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/index.cfm?guides_active=empirical&category1=18&category2=19
For J 18: (BD sends this and a note to all
mentors) This class meeting will be on CENTRA
Meet with mentor/prospective mentor.
Bring to Centra
meeting: short list of what your mentor wants, short list of what you want,
your thoughts on how we can describe and evaluate a research-based mentorship.
For J 25: No meeting of any kind - use this
week to settle in with your mentor, start log, note needed modifications. Send
me email notes – on our nicenet threaded discussion group – of what additional skills or techniques
you think you’ll need
For F 2:
Meet face-to-face and after a chat, we’ll go to the lab --