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Recounting The Conversation: Learning How To Write A Literature Review, Alexandra O. Hendley
Recounting The Conversation: Learning How To Write A Literature Review, Alexandra O. Hendley
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
This in-class activity gives students practice summarizing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from numerous sources – skills needed when writing a literature review. As a lowstakes, collaborative, in-class writing task, this activity may also help alleviate some of the fears that students may have about writing. Writing manuals like Writing in Sociology (Edwards 2015) and Writing in Sociology: A Brief Guide (Smith-Lovin and Moskovitz 2017), refer to scholarly literatures as “conversations” occurring within a “party” or “room full of people.” Applying this metaphor, this exercise asks students to imagine themselves at a party, overhearing attendees’ remarks. Students get a list of …
Teaching Students To Critically Read Digital Images: A Visual Literacy Approach Using The Dig Method, Dana Statton Thompson
Teaching Students To Critically Read Digital Images: A Visual Literacy Approach Using The Dig Method, Dana Statton Thompson
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This innovative teaching idea, the Digital Image Guide (DIG) Method, addresses the pressing need to develop visual pedagogies in the university classroom by providing a technique for students to use to critically read digital images. This article also introduces the concept of shallow and deep images. It then explains the difference between the two types of images and how to use the DIG Method to dig deeper in order to understand deep images. By utilizing the DIG Method, students can learn to analyze, interpret, evaluate and comprehend images found on social media sites and around the web, increasing …