Thursday, August 18, 2005

meeting notes

I'm willing to give this book a try, said Sharon doubtfully. And I see how it can foster a sense of political consciousness, but how helfpul is it for teaching your students how to write a literature review.

Extremely. It's extremely helpful.

And how is that?

Well, you start from the premise that a literare review is kind of story about the origin of an academic project.

Sure.

And if there's anything that the discipline of Composition wants to get across, it's that you don't merely discover the history of your topic through library research: Rather, in the literature review, you construct or peice together a story about the history of the topic that fits in with the overarching purpose of your project.

Obviously.

Yeah! So the literature review discussion goes:

Jacub's history--myths of origin as a genre--the literature review as a myth of origin.

No, Sharon sighed, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't.

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