Research Journal (10%)

By 11/24/09, you should have posted 24 Research Journal entries to your course blog. All should addresseverything prompted and always in effective, reflective ways. Since the RJ is designed to serve your research process, the effectiveness of your RJ will impact the effectiveness of Research Portfolio and, ultimately, your Final Research Project. See syllabus for more.

Research Portfolio (20%)

Does your Research Portfolio contain all the required artifacts? Does it include a great variety and number of artifacts, excellent fieldnotes expanded and reflected upon multiple times, and other obvious evidence of theresearcher’s process? Does the RP offer evidence of a meticulously researched project filled with obviousreflection?

is the RP organized in such a way that a visitor completely unfamiliar with the project can easilynavigate it and learn about the research question, context, methods, findings, and implications?

(see syllabusfor more)

Final Project (20%)

The final project will be judged largely on how effectively you present your results. Thus, the final project should be well organized, interesting, and significant to the larger scholarly conversation in literacy studies. Evidence of careful research should be present here, as well as a general good flow necessary for effective presentation of findings. See syllabus for more.