Assignment: Following a Trail to Earlier Articles
Assignments, Critical Reading, Evaluate Info., Intermediate, Use Info. Effectively August 10th. 2009, 2:18pmIn this assignment, students must track down the text of an article cited in another article. They then are asked to compare the two articles in terms of the conclusions reached, the type of article, etc. Through this assignments, students are given the chance to observe and articulate how earlier research and writing in a field shapes the research and writing that follows.