This weeks blog post is co- authored with Abby Robenalt and
Andrea Emma. We will be talking about our progress so far on our collaborative
research project!
We have changed our project to a
persuasive project and changed our way to present our information. We figured we
would be able to persuade our audience by writing a formal paper using various
multimedia concepts. There have been a few very disturbing videos we have found
that prove our point greatly. We have also decided to create a separate weebly
to work collaboratively. We broke our paper down into sections to each work on
our own to then collaborate together. We are really excited to work on our
project because we are all avid dog lovers. We cant wait for you all to see our
final project!
This week’s blog post will be about our group’s collaboration and our duties. My group members and I (Abby & Andrea) will be co-authoring this blog post. Enjoy!
Our group’s strategy for our project is to use a mix of both collaborations:
hierarchical and dialogic. All three of us are researching on our own to piece
everything together. We also have decided to interview peers on the types of dog food they are feeding their own dog and why. We have scheduled to interview a local vet and PetsMart employees. A portion of our project will be done dialogically also. We will all be working together to find information and discuss with each other. We are all excited to begin our project and start working together!
This week in class, we picked group members and began talking about our collaborative projects. My group members are Abby Robenalt and Jenna Kleinman and this is a co-authored blog. We will be talking about our plans and ideas for our project.
Choosing a topic for our collaborative research project was very easy for us, all being animal lovers, especially dogs! We chose the topic of what ingredients are in the food that we are feeding our animals. All being pet lovers, and Andrea working at Pets Smart this is project that will really be important to all of us. After watching Food Inc. in class and see what was placed in our foods we thought to our self’s we can only imagine what is place in our pets food. We are all curious as to what is good for our dogs to eat and what isn’t. There are many pet foods out there that all filled with fillers and ingredients that are not good for our animals at all. After all talking, we realized we all feed our dogs different brands of dog food. For our project we plan on interviewing various people in Pets Mart that are buying pet food. We also want to interview a local vet to see what he/she has to say about the food we are feeding our animals. We are also going to look on Pet food websites to see testimonials from buyers and if there are any informational videos on specific brand dog foods.
The questions we would like to find out are: Is this harming our pet? Is my pet getting their full nutritional value from their food? What are the long term affects it has on our animals? Our audience for our project will be pet owners and it will be an informative piece. We want to find answers to our questions to be able to inform pet owners of what their animals are really eating.
For this blog post I will discuss the article “Collaborative Writing in Composition Studies,” by Sheryl Fontaine and Susan M. Hunter.
What are the different types of collaboration? What types of collaboration have you done before (for school, work, etc?)
There are many different types of collaboration such as dialogic, scaffolding, and hierarchical. Scaffolding is a project that is done with two partners. They work together and share ideas. I have done this all through out my schooling from elementary, high school and college. Dialogical is group work where each person is responsible for his or her own part. This can be successful with communication. I am currently taking writing for the workplace and the project we are currently one is dialogical. Our topic is Work Life Balance and there are 8 of us and we are all working on different aspects of this topic. This is definitely a collaboration project that I enjoy the least but if the communication is not there, the project can get confusing. Hierarchical collaboration is a type of group work where there is someone in charge and each member has a certain role for the group project. You can see this a lot in education in the older grade levels in high school and college.
All three types of these collaborations are important to do group projects. It is something that I can use in a classroom when I am a teacher and I am using it now in college.
For this blog post, I read the article “Turns of Thought” by Donna Qualley.
What is your understanding of being a reflective and reflexive researcher?
After reading this article, it states the definition of reflection is about interpreting own suppositions (and practices), by looking at own perspectives from those of others, and by subjecting own assumptions to critical review. When we reflect our thoughts, we think about it and think about how we feel about it. We can apply it not just into our writing but our teaching as well. “Reflexivity on the other hand, does not originate in the self but always occurs in response to a person’s critical engagement with an other.” Reflexive research is a response of the research that the writer can go back to examine and discover the critique’s questions and ideas.
It seems to me that you need both reflective and reflexive in your research for it to be successful. They seem to go hand in hand.
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