This page describes the objectives, project details, recommended approaches, hints and tips, submission guidelines, and evaluation standards for the Resource Analysis project.
The Resource Analysis reports your evaluation of 2 professional and 2 scholarly resources (e.g., journals, blogs, podcasts), with emphasis on describing the focus, purpose, and relevance of each, and on highlighting content from each that is specifically relevant to your professional and scholarly development.
Document type: memo, report
Document length: 150 words (memo), 2500 to 3000 words (report)
Project value: 250 points (50, draft; 200 final)
Evaluation rubric: _RPW520_Eval_ResourceAnalysis.pdf
Your Resource Analysis (RA) should examine two professional and two scholarly resources that are relevant to your career goals. Specifically, this document reports on the content for four resources, explaining why each is useful to you and to other members of your profession or discipline.
Your project submission will include the following elements.
A memo of transmittal introduces the accompanying document to its audience(s). Your memo should be addressed from you to me, and should introduce the accompanying project. Your memo should incorporate the following content elements.
This report offers you an opportunity to explore the most significant professional and scholarly publications (or other resources) that support thinking and action in your area of study and expertise. This report should demonstrate your awareness of significant issues, topics, or conversations in that realm.
Your report should include the following content sections.
Recommended tool(s): Microsoft Word, scanning device
This section offers guidance for how to interpret the project, and for how to proceed with your work on it. Therefore, as you work, consider the following three strategies:
Students often approach research and scholarly resources as people who have no place in the conversation. It is time to re-evaluate that stance. Evaluate resources to see where you might join the conversation.
Use what you learn to construct careful arguments about the resources. Keep in mind that everything you present, whether description or assessment, is an argument. Audience members may only have your observations and interpretations to rely on for understanding each resource.
Research reports as a genre. You have ample tools and resources for doing so. Develop a design that supports your content effectively, and that establishes a strong professional ethos.
This section is designed to help you anticipate and avoid problems as you work on this project. Therefore, as you work, consider the following hints and tips:
Get started now. That way you have time to choose new ones if the first ones you locate are not useful, or not interesting. If you have no idea where to begin, then consult with faculty in your program about what they read and why.
The more specific you are in discussing each resource, the better quality understanding others will get from your work.
Read and attend carefully to these submission guidelines. Failure to do so may result in delays in receiving feedback on the draft of your project, or in points lost on the final evaluation of your project.
Create a project folder inside your shared class folder on Dropbox.com. Remember, I can only view files that you place inside the shared folder. Until you place files in that space, you have not in practice submitted them.
Name the folder Resource Analysis.
Make sure the files listed below are available to me in the project folder by the draft deadline. Model your filenames on the listed examples:
Make sure the files listed below are available to me in the project folder by the final deadline. Model your filenames on the listed examples:
Note that the Feedback file is one you receive from me in response to your draft submission. Move it into your project folder when you assemble your final submission.
This section describes the standards by which your draft and final submissions will be evaluated.
There are 50 possible points for this project draft. I will award points according to the following standard.
There are 200 possible points for the final project. You will earn points according to the standard described on the policies page (40% content development, 20% design execution, and 20% professionalism & attention to detail, and 20% impact of revision; see Policies). The specific areas of emphasis for this project are drawn from the description and discussion of the project, and are detailed in the evaluation rubric (_RPW520_Eval_ResourceAnalysis.pdf).
Remember that I will only post the point values for projects on the Grades page in SVSU Canvas. I will post the details relevant to that evaluation in your class folder in a project-specific file.
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