Contributed by Kori Hensell Students will learn how social experience and perspective makes an individual person a key piece in the exchange of ideas. By interacting with each other and with a variety of test subjects (all of whom are experts in at least one thing), students are both exposed to authority and involved in …
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Prompt: Collage Essay
Contributed by Jen Schell Alaska and the Frontier/Wilderness, a Research Collage The research assignment for this class is a bit unconventional. Your goal is to create a research collage about Alaska and its status as a frontier/wilderness. What is a collage?Collage is term used to describe a certain kind of abstract art in which …
Lesson: Evaluating Credibility
Evaluating Credibility 1. As a group, we consider things which make an author an authority in their particular field and the context of their subject, publications, research, employment, etc. We choose an author from readings done in the first unit for simplicity. 2. Has the author’s work been peer reviewed? If so, and it’s an …