Special Topics Research Seminar (525-0-21)

Topic

Media & Culture Research Practicum

Instructors

Larissa Buchholz

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 212: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course is geared towards students whose research engages with topics around media and cultural production. The overall goal of the course is to teach students in that topic area how to transform their research papers into an article for submission at an academic journal of their informed choice by the end of the term. Students will learn important skills in the craft of publishing independent, original, and high-quality scholarship. These skills encompass e.g., strategies of establishing persuasive research puzzles; heuristics of developing original theoretical ideas; formulating a compelling argument in the article format; approaches of delineating a paper's contribution and communicating its significance effectively, among others. The seminar will be run as a workshop in which students engage in writing exercises, produce written work and provide feedback on each other's' work on a weekly basis. As such the course will also help students to master the craft of reviewing scholarly work and to strengthen and polish their presentation skills.

Class Materials (Required)

Belcher, W. L. Writing your journal article in twelve weeks: A guide to academic publishing success. Thousand Oaks: Sage. (Latest edition, both for humanities and social sciences).

Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. 2016. The craft of research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (latest edition).

Class Attributes

Graduate Students Only