Week 10: read and annotate your article
Good morning. You have your narrow focus article by now. Seriously, YOU MUST LOCK THIS CHOICE IN. 
You have seen this reading stratgies guide already. You should be in skim+early parse mode this week. To guide your parsing mode, copy this Google doc reading table support (aka the grid) and keep notes NOW. Why should you do this work? Here is a Scientific American open access piece with research on reading, notetaking, and enhanced understanding of science (Francie Diep, 2014).
Additional guidance on how to read like a scientist--> Let's look at this recent article in PloS One about writing scientific prose. In Science (open access blog section), two scientists talk about how they read articles. Ruben writes with a somewhat lighthearted approach while Pain responds to his piece with her approach. Read the comments.
Where are we going with this? Of course, we have a (official MbS-crafted) research review flow chart.
Marybeth Shea
Happy Wednesday. Regarding Friday, I would rather NOT have online office hours. I am planning to catch up on grading the coffee cup memo work that is coming in steadily now. Is also Good Friday for me, as well as Passover and ongoing Ramadan, with the Friday night gathering/meal planned by many.
I DO want to introduce a simple and power step toward the first paragraph in assignment 3: the HOOK paragraph. Here are seven types of beginnings (MbS Goodle doc), each with an example, from a fabulous online engineering/composition project now shuttered (CAIN project hosted at Rice University).
I am also reworking the final schedule towar assignment 3 progress and will offer details on Monday. Short version: you CHOOSE to either
- complete this assignment and all asociated peer editing/collaborative review work close to last day of class OR
- compete the assignment and all associated peer editing/collaborative review work close to the end of finals.
I call these the Train to Atlanta and the Train to Boulder options.
Now, a preview of next week and another item of your opening paragraphs. We will use Randy Olson And-But-Therefore pattern. Here is a 10 minute TedMed video with Olson descrbing this process of efficient and reader-friendly problem definition.
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