Justin J. Bain
PhD Student in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Syracuse University
315-443-1412
jjbain@syr.edu
• Philosophy
• Writing 105
• Writing 205
• Writing 307
• Writing 110Research Anthology Assignment
One of your responsibilities as a researcher is to keep track of what it is that you are researching, how you are researching, what you find, and what the implications of those finds are. As you research, you need to be keeping track of all of these things. The anthology will be mainly a record of what you have found, where, and how, but it will also be a place for you to do your own thinking. What, for instance, are the implications of what you have found? What does it mean to you? How does it relate to what others have found? To the things we are reading? Specifically, how does it enlarge, change, develop, limit, etc, our understanding of home?
Anthologies should be composed and written as a group and account for everyone’s thoughts, experiences, and research. These anthology entries will not be due officially until the end of the unit, but you will be submitting five copies each week to the next group that will be using your method. That way, each week you will have a base of information to begin doing your research, as well as an idea of how methods have been used by past groups. Until then, you will be writing and reading others as you pass them from group to group. Anthologies will be about 2 pages typed, double-spaced, 12 point font, times new roman or similar.
Here is a process you might think about following:
1. Gather and read through all of the anthology entries your group has written.
2. Decide on a criteria or scheme for grouping those entries into sections. For instance, you could group by most or least successful research, by method/material, or by subject matter. The idea is that each section will demonstrate a point about research, method/methodology, the idea of home, etc.
3. Decide on a title and organizational scheme for each section.
4. Write a one paragraph introduction to each section in which you point out to the reader the key things to notice in that section and why you decided on this grouping.
5. Write an introduction to the anthology as a whole.