Teaching research skills & writing

1 General

• Differences between academic & general writing
• Understanding research based articles

2 Quantitative research and statistics concepts

• Hypotheses
• Some basics of experimental and quantitative design
• Intro to research designs
• Understanding variables
• Understanding stastistics
• Comparing groups: ANOVAs and t-tests
• Correlation
• Factor analysis

3 Teaching & understanding qualitative research

• Intro to qualitative research
• Writing and corpus studies

4 Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

• POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning - cooperative learning for chemistry and other science fields
• Invention activities and other modern methods in teaching biology - CWSEI at Univ. British Columbia

5 Research ethics, plagiarism, and source use

• Misusing statistics
• Research ethics - notes and famous cases
• Research ethics - handout
• Research ethics - problematic scenarios [for class discussion]
• Plagiarism exercise #1 [exercise based on a popular source]
• Plagiarism exercise #2 [based on an academic article]
• Referencing and citations in APA format
• Rewording - paraphrasing and summarizing