{"id":320,"date":"2010-05-27T23:29:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:33:18","slug":"discoveries-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/05\/27\/discoveries-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoveries in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

This assignment would be particularly useful in a class where students are writing papers on topics of their choice.\u00a0 It will help students find and interpret scholarly sources for their papers, and time could be spent in class sharing Discoveries in order for students to learn about other potential sources. \u00a0The most recent Discoveries are available on the Discoveries Blog (see website below).<\/p>\n

MAKING SOCIOLOGY PUBLIC
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\n1. \u00a0Pick an article in a peer-reviewed sociology journal that relates to the current class topics.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Go to https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/<\/a>\u00a0and read sample Discoveries.<\/p>\n

3. Using the Discoveries section from The Society Pages<\/i>\u00a0as a model, write your own Discovery to introduce the article you chose to an audience that is not trained in sociology.\u00a0 Be sure to identify the author\u2019s main argument and the evidence used to support the argument, but keep it short and to the point.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Be prepared to share the Discovery with the class.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This assignment would be particularly useful in a class where students are writing papers on topics of their choice.\u00a0 It will help students find and interpret scholarly sources for their papers, and time could be spent in class sharing Discoveries in order for students to learn about other potential sources. \u00a0The most recent Discoveries are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5009,837],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-applied","tag-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}