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Inquiry Logs

For each of your sources, you will need to provide an account of what is at issue, what the writer's focus is on the issue, how you feel that it applies to your inquiry, and what is at stake in the topic. Then, you will also need to make the step to EXTEND those ideas related in EACH of the sources, so that you are the one creating content within the conversation and new questions that need to be addressed. As you are doing this work, you will also need to identify what the writer's frame is for each of your sources. In doing so, consider how, in light of the inquiry work that you have done so far, the writers' frames for understanding, questioning, and writing create avenues of exploration and discussion while limiting others. 

Extending Ideas & Understanding a Writer's Frame

 

This prompt asks you to apply the strategies presented in From Identifying Issues to Formulating Questions (77-80) on Extending Ideas and Understanding a Writer's Frame to FOUR NEW sources. 

 

At least ONE source should be from NPR or TedTalks. At least TWO of your sources should be from academic journals and are peer-reviewed academic articles that you have found through our library's wealth of databases. YOUR NEW SOURCES SHOULD BE DIFFERENT FROM YOUR ORIGINAL SOURCES IN THAT THEY PROVIDE EITHER A DIFFERENT ANGLE ON THE MATTER OR THEY ARE UNLIKELY SOURCES THAT INFORM YOUR INQUIRY. FOR THIS, THINK BACK TO PART THREE OF YOUR INQUIRY LOG 2 POST. 

See Moodle for draft dates and submission guidelines

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