1. Final Projects
Monday, July 23rd

2. Journal
Think about all that you have learned about the
genre conventions of your field. Take a few
minutes to make a list of the genre features that
are common in your major. Think about things like
evidence, arguments, structure of research, etc.
List as many features as you can.

3. Structure of your final project
 Preliminary Genre Analysis (including
introduction)
 Intro to annotated bib
 Line of Inquiry paper
 Paragraph describing your “gap”
 Final Project discussion. If you were to fill your
“gap,” what would you do?
 Works Cited page (copy and paste the citations
from your annotated bib)

4. WTF is a “Gap?”

5. Final Project
If you were to continue exploring the gap in your research, based on the
articles you’ve read in your field, what type of research would you need to
include? Would you need human participants? Textual analysis? What
would be the best method for gathering this data?
How would you need to organize and present your research? Use
evidence from the genres you’ve analyzed. How much evidence would you
need to support your claims? How would you present this evidence?
Who would you cite in your own article? As we’ve discussed in class, often
times researchers start their articles by providing an overview of the
current conversation. Who would you include in this overview, and why?
How would you structure your own article in this field? What sections
would you have? How would you organize them? Why would this
organization be useful to you and your readers?

6. Guidelines
 Use evidence from your sources.
 Example: If I were to gather data on _____, I would
conduct interviews with 50 participants. As I learned
by reading the methodology from ___ and
____, this number of participants would allow my
research to be credible in this community. ____ and
____ studied ____, but I’ll be focusing on _____.

7. Guidelines
 Last section of inquiry paper
 New heading: “The Gap,” “The Missing Piece,” “A
New Perspective”
 Other possible headings: “Structure,” “Research
Methods,” “Data Collection,” “Presenting
Evidence”
 Think about what sections make sense for your
own paper

8. Guidelines

9. Calendar
Monday, July 23rd Inquiry papers due. Sign up for conferences.
Tuesday, July 24th Conferences. No regular class meeting. Bring some
progress on your final project to your conference.
Wednesday, July 25th Conferences. No regular class meeting. Bring some
progress on your final project to your conference.
Thursday, July 26th Bring completed final project to class for peer-review.
Monday, July 30th Submit final project to LiveText. Assign presentations
and portfolio.
Tuesday, July 31st Presentations in class. Work on portfolio.
Wednesday, August 1st Presentations in class. Work on portfolio.
Thursday, August 2nd Last class. Portfolio due. Presentations in class.

10. Conferences Tomorrow and
Wednesday
 No regular class meeting
 Work on the last portion of your project and bring
what you have to the conference
 Be ready for peer-review on Thursday

11. What now?
Write 1 paragraph/section of your final project
portion (right after your “gap” paragraph) and post
to Facebook. I’ll stop us in a little while so that we
can talk.