Syllabus

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

3 things, still

2 paragraphs

more functional take on the discussion; 3 required things


  1. some sense of (a) how other researchers come to a conclusion (what their conclusion is and how they got there), and then (b) not only what your conclusion is, but also how you arrived at that conclusion, with "because" statements for (a) and (b); how you reason with and against other available positions in the field 
  2. how your conclusion is (in)consistent with the field of public health at large, how it "fits" or doesn't "fit in" and "where"
  3. some sense of a context that would put your reasoning in question; something that at least complicated (b) the way that you arrived at your conclusion or (a) your conclusion itself, that is, so that the reader can get a sense that you acknowledge that your results is just one results among other various results, and that your results is limited to a context at one time and in one place

Monday, April 17, 2017

final project, re-purposing

  • public translation ; academic audience ; re-purpose ; e.g., executive summary 
  • talk about your project 
  • what major decisions you'd be making and why
  • how'd you'd  
  • different audience 
  • audience's needs + expectations  <--
  • document itself 
  • sell it this way, for these reasons, and to this effect
objective = for you to rethink your entire project on the basis of a public and not an academic audience. your LR is for an academic audience. what audience would your research be most relevant to and why? what genre would you sell it to them and why? what would that pitch look like and why? on what basis would you try to persuade them and of what? and why? how would your imagined document's design be designed to have an effect, what effect, and why? what design decisions would you make, and how are those decisions synced up to your audience's needs and expectations?

order of whole paper; don't forget the helpful titles


  1. introduction: ht
  2. methods/search strategy 
  3. result: ht
  4. discussion
  5. conclusion

IMRAD

a conclusion does two things

two paragraphs for the rough draft ; only one paragraph for the final product

  • recommending paths for future research; disclose future-oriented; NOT a repeating of what already happened; cryptic conversion with another researcher; where it goes from here; instructions for where to go from here and why, what lines of thought you'd imagine another reserach might want to take up, what sources she might want to look closely at, what you didn't have time for but wish you did, a source you had to exclude but that might be good for another purpose, etc. reserach scraps that might be relevant for differnt projects 
  • any kid of personal investment in the topic