Introduction to Graduate Research (Fall 2023)/Week2

Agenda

Part 1. Research puzzles

• Intro to the challenge.
• Discuss Abbott reading.
• Discuss Durkheim Suicide reading + short writing exercise.
• Paired discussion of your work ("pairs" listed below).
  • Take a few minutes to read each other's submissions (the hard copies)
  • Discuss! Some possible discussion prompts:
    • Talk about the feedback you each received.
    • Given the puzzles conversation today, what feedback/suggestions do you have for yourself? for your partner?
    • How can you sharpen the motivation for the research inquiry you have proposed in this assignment?
• Debrief from paired discussion

"Pairs":

• Sara Abdulla + Jessi Zier
• Ling Zhao + Haohan Shi
• Annie Chu + Molly de Blanc
• Sky E + Savanna Kerstiens
• Aidan Fitzsimmons (absent?) + Matt Gaughan + Charlotte Li
• Lizzie Li + Redd Roseboro

Break!

Get up, move around. Consider a highly optional third floor FSB scavenger hunt:

• The vending machine(s)
• The CSD copy room (it has a nice view)
• There used to be a ping pong table. If you find it, please let me know where it is (the dept used to have ping pong balls and paddles we could borrow)...

Part 2. Guests

Duri Long and Jeremy Birnholtz

Reminders & Announcements

• Shawffice hours
  • Sign up here
  • Reminder re: wiki use.
  • Location.
• Canvas stuff
  • Apologies for springing a Canvas "peer review" assignment on all of you without prior warning. In all honesty, I forgot that I had enabled this on the assignment and while I think it worked out okay, I'll try to alert you ahead of time in the future.
  • I created all assignments and discussion provocations in Canvas as "graded" because this makes it simpler for me to use Canvas to keep track of whether I'm missing assignments from anyone. In general, I "grade" weekly assignments as complete/incomplete and emphasize substantive feedback. If you have questions, please let me know.
• Week 3 advising reflection and collaboration assignments
  • "Pairings" for the Week 3 assignments are the same as for today. If members of your group missed class, please contact them and please be responsive to their questions about what happened in class this week.
  • I will not assign "peer review" in Canvas for these. You are responsible for circulating/commenting on your group members' materials.