HNRS 2000
Research & Exhibition
Fall 2018
- Note
- This page is maintained as an archival record of the course shown above, and as such, some links on this page may no longer be valid nor accessible. They are kept here as a record of the resources that were available at the time of the course offering.
- Brightspace: Where you will submit work and check grades (Section 01, Section 02, Section 03, Section T1, Section T2)
- LMU Digital Commons Research & Exhibition collection: Where your final work will end up, for posterity
Assignments
- Week of September 10: “Reading party” video; read CoR 1–4
- Week of September 17: Mentor introduction; read CoR 5–6
- Week of October 1: “Search party” video; research journal entry for September
- Week of October 8: read CoR 7–8
N.B. You have around one month from the first deliverable (“reading party” video) before the first truly big one is due (annotated bibliography). However, the next sizable deliverables (proposal draft, presentation draft) are then due two weeks apart after the annotated bibliography. After those, you will have around one month before the final proposal and presentation are due.
The upshot: the course work ramps up closer to the middle of the semester rather than the end. Plan your time accordingly. You will want to be primarily in “refinement mode” by the middle of November.
- Week of October 15: Annotated bibliography
- Week of October 22: Elevator story
- Week of October 29: Proposal draft; read Tufte
- Week of November 5: Research journal entry for October; early-bird presentation rough drafts for workshopping (voluntary)
- Week of November 12: Presentation draft
- Week of November 26: Annotated bibliography addendum
- Week of December 3: Research journal entry for November
- Week of December 10: Final proposal and presentation
Course Content
- Week of September 10:
- The Stranger Visions project
- PostModern Jukebox
- The experimental apparition of A.D. Cornell (related: inattention blindness video)
- Week of September 17: How to Search
- Week of September 24: Evaluating Sources
- Case study #1
- Case study #2
- Case study #3 (653K PDF)
- Case study #4
- Case study #5 (92K PDF)
- Week of October 1:
- Annotated bibliography excerpt
- Hot off the press: A potential proof of the Riemann hypothesis, one of the remaining Clay Mathematics Institute Millenium Problems
- Week of October 8:
- Another highly topical development: the recently-revealed “Sokal Squared” hoax
- For background on the original incident, Wikipedia suffices: Sokal affair
- This incident adds some gravitas to our next big deliverable: How to Write a Research Proposal
- Week of October 15: The Stranger Visions project, PostModern Jukebox, and the experimental apparition of A.D. Cornell revisited
- Week of October 22: Elevator story breakout instructions
- Week of October 29: Creating Effective Presentations
Hannon Library LibGuides/Content
The William H. Hannon Library hosts a number of LibGuides with useful information and practical tips. By all means browse and use as needed; many more are available at http://libguides.lmu.edu: