The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on your research process and revise your source list from the “Finding Information Sources: Research Documentation Assignment.” The research process is rarely linear and we shift and change as we go along, interpreting new information and revising our positions based on our research. This assignment asks you to reflect on that process as you prepare your final project.
This assessment fulfills the following objectives:
MLO 3.1 Reflect on the effectiveness of your research question and the research process (REFLECT and DESIGN).
MLO 3.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of your sources for answering your research question within the scope of your project (PREPARE).
MLO 3.3Demonstrate evidence of scholarly research (PREPARE and CREATE).
MLO 3.6 Compose an effective thesis/purpose statement for your research project (CREATE and COMMUNICATE).
Instructions
Your revision and reflection assignment will consist of two elements: 1) a reflection narrative that analyzes and reflects on your research process and 2) a revised bibliography for your project.
Your reflection narrative should address the following elements:
Your project thesis: You should clearly state the thesis (main purpose) for your project and how you arrived at that thesis through your research;
Your research process since you completed the Research Documentation assignment: You should discuss how your project evolved, if it did, on these elements
Scope,
Has the scope of your project shifted throughout the research process? If so, how?
Have you redefined your project’s parameters? If so, how?
Have you reflected on the appropriateness of the genre and medium you have chosen for your final project?
Approach/Perspective,
What did you from your research that shifted your critical lens (perspective), method(s), philosophy, strategies, and/or design of the research project?
Your strategies: What strategies did you use to execute your research project? Were they effective? Why or why not?
Context,
Have you shifted on the research conversation in which your project is situated? If so, how?
Have you refined your audience for the project? If so, how?
Has your context shifted since you began the research process? If so, how?
The narrative portion of your Revision and Reflection assignment should be at least 500 words and you should have at least ten sources for your project bibliography.
Outcomes
Demonstrate evidence of scholarly research (PREPARE and CREATE).
Reflect on your the effectiveness of your research question and the research process (REFLECT and DESIGN).
Evaluate the effectiveness of your sources for answering your research question within the scope of your project (PREPARE).
Communicate changes in your project plan and design based on your research process (COMMUNICATE and REFLECT).
Explain your project’s thesis (main purpose) (CREATE and COMMUNICATE).
Document in APA, style
Rubric
Capstone Rubric (2)
Criteria Ratings
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Design
Capstone: Develops questions and concepts towards a compelling purpose, audience, and context.
Accomplished: Develops questions and concepts towards a relevant purpose, audience, and context.
Developing: Identifies questions and concepts towards a relevant purpose, audience, and context.
Deficient: Does not identify questions and concepts towards a relevant purpose, audience, and context.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Prepare
Capstone: Chooses materials, methods, and perspectives of depth and breadth, as well as relates them to one another in the appropriate context.
Accomplished: Chooses materials, methods, and perspectives and relates them to one another in the appropriate context.
Developing: Chooses materials, methods, and perspectives, but does not relate them to one another in the appropriate context.
Deficient: Does not choose materials, methods, or perspectives relevant to the appropriate context.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Create
Capstone: Interprets relevant theories, methods, information, and content to produce research in an appropriate form and context.
Accomplished: Summarizes relevant theories, methods, information, and content to produce research in an appropriate form and context.
Developing: Includes relevant theories, methods, information, and content to produce some research in an appropriate form and context.
Deficient: Does not include relevant theories, methods, information, and content to produce some research in an appropriate form and context.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Communicate
Capstone: Synthesizes and explains knowledge, skills, and information for a compelling purpose and context in an appropriate form.
Accomplished: Explains knowledge, skills, and information for a compelling purpose and context in an appropriate form.
Developing: Reports knowledge, skills, and information for a relevant purpose and context in an appropriate form.
Deficient: Does not identify knowledge, skills, and information sources for a relevant purpose and context in an appropriate form.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Reflect
Capstone: Evaluates and considers diverse experiences, impacts, perspectives, knowledge and skills to address complex issues or problems in a more sophisticated way.
Accomplished: Evaluates and describes diverse experiences, impacts, perspectives, knowledge and skills to address complex issues or problems in a more sophisticated way.
Developing: Identifies and describes some diverse experiences, impacts, perspectives, knowledge and skills to address issues or problems.
Deficient: Identifies but does not describe some experiences, impacts, perspectives, knowledge and skills to address issues or problems.
