Projects Archive - Writing Commons

Research-Based Student AI Policy Statement

Joe Moxley — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:58:56 +0000

Based on the scholarly research you have conducted throughout this semester, create an evidence informed AI Policy Statement. Beyond stating explicitly if/when/and how students can use generative AI tools for school work, explain the why your recommended policies. This will provide authority to your recommendations for critical audiences — students and teachers who want to ... Read more

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Team-Based Literature Reviews

Joe Moxley — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:15:55 +0000

This is a three-week exercise with two steps: Step #1: Integrate Existing Course Articles into a Review Working in teams, write a literature review that incorporates the sources we already referenced: Step #2: Establish Teams to Research Other Pertinent Topics Sign up for a Team. These should be new teams. Each team will engaged in ... Read more

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Presentation – Culminating Synthesis of Research Methods and Findings in Professional and Technical Communication

Joe Moxley — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:02:39 +0000

Writing Prompt You’ve already: Now, your task is to pull together these insights into a concise, 5–7 minute presentation. Rather than simply summarizing the three articles again, you will extrapolate what these articles reveal about: Instructions Submission Instructions

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How to Develop an Effective Research Proposal

Joe Moxley — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:45:53 +0000

The Creative Challenge For this project, you may work individually or collaboratively. You may develop a topic to research by considering the articles published in PTC journals that you and your peers reviewed for the second and third creative challenges. The research question may be based on your critiques or their peers’ critiques of studies ... Read more

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How to Effectively Share Your Research Findings

Joe Moxley — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 22:28:03 +0000

The Creative Challenge – Report Research Findings & Reflect on Research Methods This final creative challenge consists of three major deliverables that build upon your earlier research proposal. The research findings report and the methodological reflection are equally weighted in terms of grading, with the peer presentation contributing to your overall assessment. Research Findings Report ... Read more

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How to Conduct Interviews

Joe Moxley — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:04:31 +0000

This is the fourth creative challenge that undergraduate students complete for Research Methods in Professional and Technical Communication, an undergraduate writing course. This assignment asks students to interview a student, a professor, and a professional writer regarding ways AI is changing communication practices.

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How to Critique Research Questions, Reviews, and Citations

Joe Moxley — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:51:25 +0000

Introduction & Organizational Summary As explored in the previous creative challenge on key terms and research methods in professional and technical communication (PTC), different scholarly and professional communities have distinct epistemological foundations, research practices, and genre conventions. They have conflicting ideas about what knowledge is, how knowledge claims should be constructed or found, and how ... Read more

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Key Terms, Concepts, and Research Methods in Professional and Technical Communication

Joe Moxley — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:25:12 +0000

The Creative Challenge – Visualize Major Research Methods Deliverable #1 – Individually-Authored Visualization Create an infographic or video that tells a story about these five major methods: Your visualization should help your readers understand that these methods are used by different research communities — and that these communities may hold distinct, even contradictory, assumptions about ... Read more

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How to Critique Research Methods

Joe Moxley — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:46:21 +0000

The Creative Challenge For this project, you will from continue to analyze the three articles you selected from one journal for the second creative challenge. This time, rather than analyzing the research questions, literature reviews, and citations in the three studies, you’ll analyze the methods, results, and interpretations provided in the studies. Deliverables: Three 3 ... Read more

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Research Methods – Creative Challenges

Joe Moxley — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:14:27 +0000

The course is structured around five foundational methodologies: Through these creative challenges, students will: This progressive approach allows students to build their skills incrementally, moving from critical consumers of research to active producers of knowledge in the field. By the end of the course, students will be well-prepared to engage with and contribute to the ... Read more

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