Scholarship Is a Conversation refers to the idea of sustained discourse within a community of scholars, researchers, or professionals, with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of competing perspectives and interpretations.
Possible Learning Objectives for Students
Students will examine the bibliography, footnotes, and references section of sources they find to locate additional sources of information.
Recognize the metaphor of “conversation” to describe the purpose of research
Identify the contribution of specific scholarly pieces and varying perspectives to a disciplinary knowledge “conversation”
Contribute to the scholarly conversation at an appropriate level, through the lens of becoming a creator/critic
Students will be able to understand citation chaining in order to evaluate the impact of a work (and find more info on the topic).
Students will understand how to understand and analyze a scholarly peer-reviewed article and identify and understand all the parts of the article
