About the Schedule
All readings are to be completed before class. Responses are due by the Sunday evening following class discussion. The schedule is subject to change; please make sure you are checking it regularly.
January
Week 1: 1/22
Assignment for the first meeting
Introductions, syllabus, on creative research, set up research blogs
Hand out Research Blog and Twitter Intro and Live-tweeting Course Readings assignments
Week 2: 1/29
Class Canceled BW has the Flu
February
Week 3: 2/5
Feature stories: Junod, Nutt, Ross, Siebert, and Wallace, “Shipping Out.” On Twitter: Atwood, Johnson, and Silver.
Hand out Semester-long Research Project and Research Proposal Assignments
Friday 2/8: Research Proposals due on research blog by 11:00pm
Friday 2/8: Order free business cards no later than this day so they can arrive in time for field research.
Week 4: 2/12
pages 2 – 47; 51 – 62; 126 – 181 from 2013 Writer’s Market and Writer’s Market in your project area
Readings on Qualitative Research and Research Ethics: Creswell, Christians; innovation study IRB sample minus consent and survey instruments (2005, UT-Austin, .pdf)); oral history study IRB (2009; Rowan, .pdf); IRB and NIH Certification discussion
Hand out Annotated Bibliography Assignment (.pdf) (see Major Assignments for samples)
NIH certification process completed by class time
Week 5: 2/19
More on Twitter; Gubrium, PostModern Interviewing: Intro, Chapters 2, 4, 5, and 7; Discuss Research Topics; Zotero (if time)
Hand out Leveraging Twitter for Research
Rowan Library databases tutorials must be completed
NIH certification process completed by class time
Week 6: 2/26
Meet in the coffee shop area of the student center (student-center-fieldnotes-assignment.pdf)
Gubrium, PostModern Interviewing: Chapters 9, 10, 12, 13
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes: Chapters 1 and 2
Query letter for chosen publication due on blog by class time
Rowan Library databases tutorials must be completed
March
Week 7: 3/5
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes: Chapters 3, 4, and 5; Pink, “Photography in Ethnographic Research”;
Debrief fieldnotes experience; discuss source types; introduce Zotero
Bring student center fieldnotes to class
Hand out Fieldnotes, Interviews, and Reflections assignment
Week 8: 3/12
Datson, Things That Talk: Intro, Chapters 5, 7, and 8; Syverson; Harper’s Annotations (links and downloads on the Readings page in the Annotations section)
Interview Areas, Interviewees, and Interview Schedule due on Research Blog
Hand out Object Analysis (Harper’s Annotation) assignment
Week 9: Spring Break March 14 – 18
Week 10: 3/26
annotated-bib-peer-response-s13.pdf
bring to class and discuss object to be annotated in Annotation assignment
Annotated Bibliography Rough Draft in class (bring citation guide[s] with you to class)
April
Week 11: 4/2 — Class Canceled for Research Conferences
Friday, 4/5: Annotated bibliography final drafts due via Dropbox by 11:00pm
Week 12: 4/9 — Class meets in the classroom canceled due to @ouryoungster being sick
harpers-annotation-peer-response-s13-rev.pdf
Document analysis and letter rough drafts due in Dropbox by class time
Week 13: 4/16 — Class canceled for conferences / Writing Week
Document analysis and letter final drafts due in Dropbox by 11:00pm
Week 14: 4/23 — Class meets in the classroom
Rough Drafts of final project and query letter due via Dropbox by 5:00pm Sunday, 4 /21
Workshop drafts in class; evaluations
Research reflection and analysis, and final submission guidelines
Week 15: 4/30
Last day of class; last day of class dinner in class
Reflecting on creative research and composing
Week 16: Monday, 5/13
Final query letter, Final project, Research reflection and analysis due via Dropbox by 11:00pm