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Lateral Reading Assignment

In this assignment, you’ll practice lateral reading: a form of reading that helps you check a source that you’re reading against other sources so that you better understand the biases of the source you are considering. Lateral reading can be used to understand the accuracy and credibility of any reading that you do (whether scholarly or non-scholarly). You can use this practice as you are choosing sources for your Collective Reflective Annotation entries, and as you start to get more of an understanding of the topic you are researching for Assignment 2.

Name(Required)

First Last

Date(Required)

MM slash DD slash YYYY

Email(Required)

What is your current research question for Assignment 2?(Required)

Please watch "Check Yourself With Lateral Reading" first.

Please copy and paste the link below into another browser tab and watch it before continuing with this assignment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQG6Tin-1E

Briefly explain what the "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign was from the "Check Yourself With Lateral Reading" video.(Required)

Remember: you need to watch the Check Yourself With Lateral Reading video to be able to answer this question. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQG6Tin-1E

What is "lateral" reading, and why is it called "lateral"?(Required)

Remember: you need to watch the Check Yourself With Lateral Reading video to be able to answer this question. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQG6Tin-1E

For Assignment 2, you must find scholarly sources to incorporate into your research proposal. However, to understand the scholarly source, you may want to consult other resources. Which kinds of resources does the "Check Yourself With Lateral Reading" video suggest that you could use?(Required)

Remember: you need to watch the Check Yourself With Lateral Reading video to be able to answer this question. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQG6Tin-1E

True or false: Wikipedia is a good source to help yourself get a good overview of a topic.(Required)

True

False

True or false: Wikipedia is a scholarly source, and you can cite it in Assignment 2.(Required)

True

False

Practicing Lateral Reading

In this section, you will practice doing some lateral reading with a non-scholarly source. Please open this link in another browser tab to continue with this assignment: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-we-should-raise-the-minimum-wage

True or false: the source (linked above — the one about raising the minimum wage) is a scholarly source.(Required)

True

False

To answer this question, please make sure to open this link in another browser tab to continue with this assignment: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-we-should-raise-the-minimum-wage

The sponsoring organization for this article is called The Odyssey. Do you have any prior knowledge about this organization?(Required)

To answer this question, please make sure to open this link in another browser tab to continue with this assignment: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-we-should-raise-the-minimum-wage

What can you learn about the The Odyssey? (Although it’s okay to start with something like the “About” page, you also need to go outside the site!)(Required)

To answer this question, please make sure to open this link in another browser tab to continue with this assignment: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-we-should-raise-the-minimum-wage

What sources did you use to learn about the organization? Copy and paste the links to them in the box below.(Required)

To answer this question, please make sure to open this link in another browser tab to continue with this assignment: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-we-should-raise-the-minimum-wage

At this point, do you think this website is a strong source of information about raising the minimum wage? Explain.(Required)

To answer this question, please make sure to open this link in another browser tab to continue with this assignment: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-we-should-raise-the-minimum-wage

Working with YOUR source

In this section, you will practice some lateral reading on a source that you’re considering using for Assignment 2.

For this section of the assignment, you should use a scholarly source that you are considering using for Assignment 2. What is the title of the source that you're using in this section?(Required)

Who is the author or the authors of this source?(Required)

What kind of source is this? (i.e. academic book, academic journal article, book chapter, dissertation, something else)(Required)

Is this a peer reviewed source?(Required)

Yes

No

I’m not sure.

Briefly explain what it means for a scholarly source to be "peer reviewed."(Required)

What is the title of the journal (not the title of the journal ARTICLE, but the journal ITSELF) for this piece? Or if this is a book, who was the publisher?(Required)

Example: in the following journal article, the title of the journal is TESOL Quarterly. Flores, Nelson. “The Unexamined Relationship Between Neoliberalism and Plurilingualism: A Cautionary Tale.” TESOL Quarterly, vol. 47, Sept. 2013, doi:10.1002/tesq.114.

What is the central research question in this source?(Required)

How did the researcher(s) find out the answer(s) to their research question(s)? What research methods did they use?(Required)

What did the researcher(s) discover / what were the findings of this study?(Required)

Practice writing a brief PARAPHRASE of the study below. Do not directly quote more than 4 words (and put those words in quotes if you use words from the text), and do not just change out words from the abstract for synonyms. Try to explain, in your own words and without looking at the text, what this study's central question is asking, what methods the researchers used to find out the answer, what they found out, and how this relates to your research question.(Required)

If you have located more than one scholarly source so far, what are the connections that you see between this source and other sources? If you haven't located more than one scholarly source so far, look at the references / works cited this for this source. Copy and paste a few of the titles for other sources that appear in this list and that might be relevant to your Assignment 2 project.(Required)

How long would you estimate that it took you to do this assignment?(Required)

Which of the following is true?(Required)

I have filled out all of the boxes above to the best of my ability. This assignment is complete.

I have filled out the boxes above, but there were several answers that I didn’t know yet. I might need to redo parts of this assignment to meet requirements once I get some feedback.

Do you have any other questions so far about lateral reading?(Required)

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