Adding your own voice to a research assignment

As students read and made notes on resource materials, they should consider ways to add their own thoughts and ideas to their research papers:

• Compare/contrast multiple articles’ findings
• Explain a quotation
• Disagree with the article’s findings, and explain why
• Agree with the article, but with a difference
• Agree and disagree at the same time
• Find gaps in the existing research
• Find fault with methods
• Find fault with the assumptions
• Find fault with the conclusions^[1]

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^[1]Several of these ideas are drawn from Graff, G., & Birkenstein, C. (2010). They say / I say: The moves that matter in academic writing. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7098068