Feeder 3.1 Workshop

1. Paraphrase the thesis statement of the scholarly article your partner wrote about. Has your partner made the scholar's argument clear in the paper? Is it clear where the scholar's argument ends and your partner's argument begins? How might your partner make this relationship between their and the scholar's ideas clearer?

2. When workshopping similar assignments earlier this semester we concentrated on how the author makes an argument intended for scholars accessible for your blog's wider audience. Has the author explained why this research matters? Do you think the author makes a substantive and powerful connection between audience and subject matter? Do you think your blog's audience REALLY wants to read this post? Explain your answer, pointing to specific details in the draft.

3. In today's discussion we talked about the relationship between facts (observations) and opinions (claims) in the humanities. Has the author drawn a clear relationship between the claims and the observations that support them in the original article? What kinds of evidence does the scholarly author cite in support of his or her claims? How might your partner make the relationship between the original author's claims and observations clearer in the draft.

4. What constitutes "original research" is a little more difficult to determine in the humanities than it was in the natural or social sciences. Are you confident that the article summarized is a scholarly article? How can you tell? How might the author make it clearer that s/he is summarizing scholarly research?

Homework: Bring a script for your Feeder 3.2 VoiceThread to class on Tuesday. Your script should explain not only what you will say in your VoiceThread, but what images you use and how you plan to annotate and explain them to your audience. Unit 2 Project podcasts are also due by class time on Tuesday.