Welcome to the YDEV Research and Evaluation (560/61) Blog!
Week 1 For this class, you will be writing in a weekly blog. Here are some of the reasons why writing is a great learning tool: Writing can help you understand content in new ways. Writing can help you connect different ideas, concepts, or texts. Writing is changeable -- you can rework and rewrite as your thinking evolves. Writing can make your thinking visible to others. For this class, you will set up your own writing blog to use for all of your weekly writing assignments and to keep track of your thoughts about any of the issues we cover. (Feel free to use the blog you created for Victoria's class). In requiring a writing blog, I am inviting you to engage in a common qualitative research practice. Researchers often write memos (which are informal pieces of writing about a particular topic) to help them analyze data. Your blog is a place for you to write down ideas, concepts, and learnings. Each week, I'll post prompts to help you structure your thinki...