Notice: Ask a Researcher
Find someone in your field of study or someone who does research writing that you admire. It could be a boss or a researcher, another student, a family member, a Continue reading
Category: Assignments
Your Slack Discussions on Climate Change using the Pentad
Research is Generational Dialogue. Is dialogue a tool? This floor organizes our class discussions through slack channels. Choose (at least) one channel that interests you because of a dialogue happening Continue reading
Aspect of Burke’s Pentad: Scene
What do scenes look like in your discipline’s research writing? What will scenes look like in your writing? What are the scenes leading up to the particular scene of focus? Continue reading
RESEARCH NARRATIVE: Agency
Interview Conduct an interview with a researcher at UAF who is engaged with climate change. What does this person think is needed beyond being someone with passion? Compose: This Google Continue reading
RESEARCH NARRATIVE: Agent
Who are you as a researcher? Write your own biographical statement “about the researcher’ in regard to climate change and interests. How would you write your research biography? Compose: This Continue reading
RESEARCH NARRATIVE: Purpose
Propose: Draft a funding proposal for URSA. Compose: This Google Doc assignment asks you to write persuasively, asking you to get your reader to recognize that what you propose Continue reading
RESEARCH NARRATIVE: Act
Problem Statement: What is the conflict you care about in your discipline’s narratives about climate change? Compose: Draft a 500-750 word problem statement of climate change in your disciplinary lens. Continue reading
RESEARCH NARRATIVE: Scene
Disciplinary Climate Change Scene: What do you imagine the field or place or situation to look like, smell like, taste like, feel like, sound like? Compose: Write a narrative scene Continue reading
Your Annotations Folder on Climate Change
We’ve asked what fuels you: What is your purpose? Now let’s consider what fuels climate change storytelling. Please find 5 resources on climate change that will fuel your storytelling. Specifically, Continue reading
Your Introduction to Us
Research, writing, and storytelling happen in collaboration. We need to get to know each other. Please introduce yourself to the rest of us in our “introductions” channel on Slack. As Continue reading