My experience with research is very limited. I feel like I've read a great deal of research, but I have never donned the title of researcher.
Immediate research goals include getting to know what research looks like in Composition Studies. Coming out of this class, I'm hoping I can pinpoint and classify research when I read it.
I'm interested in authorship theories and how students negotiate plagiarism policies. I know there is a wealthy bank of research that asks plagiarism questions. As such, I feel like I'll need to dig into the research more to ask a question that hasn't been asked. I'm also interested in how multimedia and social media can be used as resources for students.
Hi Dustin! It might also be interested to see what effect multimedia/social media has on students' reactions or interpretations of plagiarism policies. Maybe?
ReplyDeleteDustin,
ReplyDeleteThere's a cfp out by the Citation Project for chapters on plagiarism on authorship theories. It wouldn't hurt to take a swing . . .
First, I dub the Researcher Dustin!
ReplyDeleteI like that you have already internalized the need to spot the gap in scholarship. I think plagiarism is such a cool topic and one that we think is solved but it's not. We assume people "cheat" because they are lazy, but it is usually so much more complicated than that.