WORKSHOP 1: Visual Representation of Your 10-STEP Research Paper Process

OVERVIEW:

Repko and Szostak often encourage us to be playful and creative as we engage in interdisciplinary processes and pursuits. In the early weeks of this course, we ask you to demonstrate that you understand the Repko & Szostak 10-STEP interdisciplinary research model you’ll use throughout this term. In this assignment, we ask you to press your thinking and creativity and see what you discover when you represent the 10-STEP interdisciplinary research process (IRP) visually, based on Table 3.1 (p. 77) of the textbook.

For this assignment, we’d like you to utilize a learning strategy called mapping. See various research map examples on pages 114 to 117. Consider what and how these mapping examples help to disclose and distill interdisciplinary research concepts, theories, and processes.

Your 10-STEP model map should be a clear and concise flow chart or diagram that employs words, symbols, colors, shapes, images, memes, and so forth to convey how you envision your research process at this stage. You may wish to consider how someone in your major or career field would visually represent your research process, and if you wish to employ such an approach. Maybe you want to emphasize your personality or sense of humor.

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WORKSHOP 2: Data Table of Insights & References

OVERVIEW:

There are three parts to this literature review assignment. 

  1. On the first line, list your research question as a question.
  2. Based on Table 5.1 (p. 144) of the textbook, create one table. You may use Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. Your table breaks down information on five scholarly (peer-reviewed) research resources you’ve read to begin your Term Research Paper research. To format the table, use these nine column headings and a row for each of your five research resources:
  • Author
  • Discipline/Disciplinary Perspective
  • Thesis
  • Assumption
  • Theory Name (if applicable)
  • Key Concept(s)
  • Method
  • Phenomena Addressed
  • Bias (if you can discern it)
  1. Immediately below your table, list an APA bibliographic citation for each of your five research references. In other words, list all your references at the end in proper APA format.

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Writing Workshop 3: Identifying Significant Quotes That May Indicate Common Ground & Conflicting Insights

OVERVIEW:

This Workshop assignment helps you to pinpoint critical quotes (which may be similar or conflicting) that you can integrate into your paper. You should integrate these quotes into your research paper, to support your points and arguments and make your writing more persuasive. This exercise also helps you to practice writing APA in-text and bibliographic citations. This assignment is worth 100 points toward your final Workshop course grade.

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Create a Word document.
  2. On the top line of the document, state your research question as a question (chances are your research question has evolved; show LaFever the most current and highly developed iteration of your research question). 
  3. Under your research question, create a table based on Table 9.2 on p. 247. Label two (vertical) columns: “Discipline” and “Insight of the Author.” In column one, list each of your three disciplines. In column two, list a direct quote or paraphrase each key disciplinary insight you plan to include in your paper. Include an in-text citation for each direct quote (see Table 9.2).
  4. Include a minimum of five sources/authors* and three different disciplines. 
  5. Under your table, list a correct APA citation for each reference. List your references in alphabetical order by author’s last name. See APA guidelines to make certain your references are listed in the correct format.

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WORKSHOP 4: Turn Your Research Project into a Visual Argument

OVERVIEW:

In this final workshop, tell the reader what you did in each of the 10 STEPs of the Repko-Szostak 10-STEP model. Write in past tense, telling how you addressed each STEP in the context of your specific research question. Through this final workshop assignment, you’ll come “full circle” in representing how you applied each of the 10-STEPs of the Repko-Szostak 10-STEPS (see Table 3.1, p. 77) in the process of completing your interdisciplinary research paper.

More specifically, the fourth workshop asks you to repeat the first workshop but with one major shift: In Workshop 1, you demonstrated what you planned to do, but Workshop 4 explains what you did in terms of applying the 10-STEP approach in addressing YOUR interdisciplinary research question. 

Further, during the final weeks of the course, #4 Workshop is meant to be completed in tandem with your final paper, to inform and strengthen both assignments. You may use the same or a different layout than what you employed in Workshop 1. Like before, in this assignment, you’re encouraged to show your creativity and sense of humor.

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