I have been really impressed by the way the on-campus students have delved into research above and beyond the call of the assignment (develop an argumentative synthesis paper about one of the political ads) in order to flesh out their papers.
K, especially, has done some solid research on the Daisy Ads. It turns at that there have been more than the 1964 original and the current The Stakes ad. She has moved from web search to library databases, finding more and more to develop her paper about the attempt to use scare tactics in political ads. I can't wait to read her paper.
I think this is a pretty good way to go with research for this level of students. Start with google or yahoo and then move from there. Or better yet, let them decide to move from there. The trick is to figure out a way to get the online students to be willing to do the same. There's so much to be said for that f2f interaction to create the incentive to try just one thing more. K, for example, couldn't find a source, which L across the room found for her. Now, to figure out how to make that work easily online.
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