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Writing and Inquiry: Composing, Discovery, and Research

Writing and Inquiry: Composing, Discovery, and Research. Dr. Bruce Ballenger Boise State University. “A culture of inquirers…”. Begins with questions not answers. Discovery is seeded with uncertainty, willingly tolerated over time. Emphasizes induction over deduction .

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Writing and Inquiry: Composing, Discovery, and Research

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  1. Writing and Inquiry: Composing, Discovery, and Research Dr. Bruce Ballenger Boise State University

  2. “A culture of inquirers…”

  3. Begins with questions not answers. Discovery is seeded with uncertainty, willingly tolerated over time. Emphasizes induction over deduction. Has a method, a strategy. Conditions for Inquiry?

  4. Suspending Judgments Research Question Data Making Judgments

  5. Myth of the Boring Topic • No such thing as boring topic, only bad questions • Suspend judgment and tolerate ambiguity • Extend the process of open inquiry • Questions are like knives • The more you look the more you see

  6. Is Elvis dead? Why do people keep asking this question?

  7. Dialogic Reasoning

  8. Strategy for Inquiry Creative Thinking Sea Fastwriting Showing Specifics Collecting Observations of What happened Then Generating Exploring Seeing Playing Critical Thinking Mountain Composing Telling Generalities Focusing Ideas about What happens Now Criticizing Reflecting Interpreting Judging

  9. Portion of men whose attractiveness is judged by U.S. women to be “worse than average” : 4/5 Portion of women about whom U.S. men say this : 2/5

  10. Collect Bibliographic info. Paraphrases Summaries Quotes/Passages Striking Facts Explore/Evaluate/ Explain Fastwrite responses Questions Connections Believing game Doubting game Double Entry Journal

  11. Content Structured Inquiry Instructor-centered Guided Inquiry Student-centered Open Inquiry Reasoning

  12. Tap to Get Started with Keynote. Mini-inquiry Project • Scroll through the slides. Touch the images and text. And experience the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device.  17

  13. Experts see patterns that novices fail to notice.

  14. 1. Organize the Data in a Logical Way 2. Generate Questions that the Data Raise Choose and Refine One Question and Eliminate Irrelevant Data. 4. Pose Inquiry Question of Value, Policy, Interpretation, Hypothesis, or Relationship. Post on newsprint. 19

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