Sunday, May 17, 2009

Part 2--The Write UP

For the reflective write up I would like each of you to analyze what happened within the blog as a whole. This analysis should include 2-4 ‘themes’ or ‘categories’ that you trace through the posts on the blog—this could be the social science disciplines, or could be the ‘kinds’ of walls, or the relationships built to the readings, or something entirely different!

In many ways I picture this project as a research paper without the final product. What I mean by this is that online you are discovering and interrogating sources—analyzing them as raw pieces of data. In this written (and more formal) portion, I want you to create/impose order on the chaos that is data collection. This write up is the analysis or discussion portion of a ‘normal’ paper, with some ‘conclusionary’ remarks for good measure. This essay may include personal observations and will definitely show what you thought most interesting.

The essays should be between 800-1000 words long and are due on June 11th by 5pm. Please email your essays to Tom O'Connell--he will then forward them on to me.

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