NOTE: If you are a teacher, and thinking about adapting/altering these guides for your own purposes, that is A-OK with me! I like sharing stuff. You’ll probably want these in Word format, though. Just drop me a line at [email protected] and I will hook you up.

MOST RECENT WEB SITES I’VE CREATED FOR STUDENTS
(Humanities & Social Science):

• Arts as Research: A Step by Step Web Site
• Terri Senft’s Senior Thesis Class for Global Liberal Studies @NYU
• The Creative Researcher: Issues & Methods (for sophomores @GLS NYU)

MY MOST RECENT RESEARCH ORIENTED SYLLABI

• Thesis Class in Contemporary Culture & Creative Production
  (Seniors GLS, NYU)
• “Creative Researcher” Class
  (Sophomore Research Approaches, GLS, NYU)

MY MOST RECENT RESEARCH ORIENTED WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

• Intellectual Autobiography Assignment
• Reader Notes & Close Reading Assignment
• “Design your own Syllabus” Assignment
• Thesis Proposal Assignment

THEORY LECTURES & CLOSE READING NOTES

• My Close Reading Notes for Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto“
• My Close Reading Notes for Douglas Holt’s “Why Do Brands Cause Trouble”
• My Close Reading Notes for Gayatri Spivak’s More on Power Knowledge
• My Close Reading Notes for Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx
• My Close Reading Notes for Lawrence Lessig’s FREE
• Here are old PDFs of PowerPoint talks on about 20 different theory-related topics

BIBLIOGRAPHIC HELP SHEETS I’VE DONE

• Finding Scholarly Research Sources: Tips & Links
• Popular and Trade Sites:Tips & Links for getting Case Studies
• Distinguishing Between Popular and Scholarly Sources

READING, WRITING & CODING LECTURES I’VE GIVEN

• Learning to Read Visually: The Markup, Summary & Close Read Approach
• Writing Cultural Studies Proposals: Object, Question, Lens & Method
• Proposing an arts as research project- Questions you Must Address
• Coding and Writing up Your Data: Getting Started
• Assessing Your Arts Based Research: Questions You Must Address
• Terri’s Notes for Drafting a Thesis Conclusion

CHARTS I’VE CREATED FOR CLASSROOM/STUDENT USE

• There’s a Theorist for every question: a Chart to Help you start Looking
• There’s a Word for what you wanna do: A Chart on Research Methods
  
• Did You Remember to…? Your Qualitative Methods Double-Check Chart
• Here’s a Template for anyone working on a a Proposal (in Trello)

WORKBOOKS I’VE CREATED

• Cultural and Media Studies Research Approaches: Student Workbook
• Brainstorming Your Paper Topics: a Workbook
  
• University Basics: A Skills Workbook

MY DIGITAL TOOLS TUTORIALS & ASSIGNMENTS

• Present Yourself Graphically with Canva
• Manage Large Writing Projects with Trello
• Connect to Others with Tumblr
• Connect with Classmates on Slack
• Learn Digital Curation Using Evernote, Feedly and RefME
• Use ToDoist to Manage Creative Projects: Here are Some Templates

 

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