beyond the term paper: helping students understand scholarship as conversation
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Beyond the Term PaperHelping Students Understand Scholarship as ConversationMahrya Carncross, Western Illinois University, [email protected] Communities of scholars, researchers, or professionals engage in sustained discourse with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of varied perspectives and interpretations. Not a Solitary Activity
Many Perspectives, Many Answers
Knowledge as Discourse
Changing not Fixed
Process not Product
Dispositions and Knowledge Practices
Group Exercise #5: Identify a Scholarly Conversation
Reference material from Opposing Viewpoints
Identify Experts
Where are these experts communicating their ideas?Group Exercise #18: Tracing a Topic
Group Exercise #19: Establishing Authority
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