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 --