2.3 Snow day and what to do for next week.

I'm always glad for a snow day - but I am sorry we will be missing class tonight.  

Missing class means we will need to double up on literature reviews and causal comparative and correlatinal research next week.  I will provide the reaction paper for Brodkey (it will be posted by Saturday).  We will skim through the Mertens chapters - but use our discussion of Berlin and Brodkey to make connections to the points in her chapters.  We will also spend some time using the language associated with the different research paradigms and consolidating what we know /how we feel about the different axiologies/ontologies/epistemologies and methodologies.   

We will go over the reaction paper assignment & you will sign up for presentations by choosing from the remaining readings.  

This revision to the calendar won't be the end of the world, but it is going to leave a little less time for brainstorming/sharing ideas for research projects in light of the reading we are doing about methods and composition studies.  

I'm hoping we can recover some of the lost class time through allowing for slightly longer f2f conferences, some time within the next two weeks.  I have pasted in a schedule of  times I am available. You can "sign up" by sending me an email listing two possible times and I will write you in, here on the blog.  If none of the times I have posted work for you - send me times that are good for you and we can work it out.

Possible times for conferences on research projects (& appointments so far)
2.10@3:00 Kristi
2.10 @ 7:00  Meg
Tuesdays: (2/4 & 2/11) 11:00 am - 12 noon; 1:00 - 2:00; 4:00-5:00
2.11 @ 4:00 Larissa
2.11@4:45  Omar
Wednesdays: (2/5 & 2/12) 11:00 am - 12 noon 
2.12@2:00 Dave
Thursdays: (2/6 & 2/13)  11:00 am - 2:00 pm
2.13@1:00  Mary
2.13@3:30 Gina
2.13@4:14 Pete

For next week:

Read:  Mertens, Ch 5: Causal Comparative and Correlational Research; Mertens, Appendix: Research Proposals; Brodkey  (1989) p 621 in CT.

Write:  For your conference: do some drafty-draft writing for a description of a project you might like to do - or create a list of several possible projects.  Go wide at this point.   After the conference , expland this writing to include questions you might ask, a list of what you might need to read, and a list of methods you might use.