The goal of this assignment to describe and reflect on research methods you’ve learned in your college courses that were particularly effective and/or meaningful.  And to consider ways they may be useful and relevant to the praxis issues we’re studying.

Review and describe two courses that involved a research process: (1) in your major (Communication) and (1) in your wider studies.  This means you will write about two courses.   Here’s some guiding prompts:

• What were the courses, what are some takeaways?
• Describe and assess the research projects?  
  • Objectives
  • Methods
  • What, if any, theories were applied?
  • Outcomes, some takeaways
  • How did it work?  What did you get from the experience?
• In what ways, if any, might these be useful for the individual and group topics of study we’re addressing in this class?
• In what ways, if any, does any of this experience relate (or not) to the focus of this course?

Share your responses to the above prompts in two ways:

1.  Maximum two page, single-spaced report, posted on your rolling Google doc.
2.  One photo that somehow speaks to some takeaway about which you wrote.  JUST ONE — not for both research experiences.   
   • Photo can be an image of something or a collage construction where you put varied items in the frame.  Such a photo could include simple text – a word or a few.
   • Write a brief caption – could be a phrase from what you’ve written above, or something else.
   • Post with above report.  

POST TO YOUR GOOGLE DOC.  INCLUDE ASSIGNMENT DATE AND TITLE AT TOP.  Send link to instructor:  jsaxe@comm.umass.edu