Assignments

Overview This three-part assignment asks students to consider how content, style, and audience shape multimedia journalism. Their first task is to analyze a piece of multimedia journalism, evaluating who it’s trying to reach and how. They then produce their own video analysis, targeting a specific audience and making rhetorical and stylistic choices in their…

Overview In this assignments, students practice the skill of multimedia writing, focusing on how different kinds of text and media speak to one another. This is also an opportunity for students to find their voice as writers, exploring who they are and how their experiences shape their points of view. Assignment Sheet

Assignment by Jessica DeSpain, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview This foundational assignment teaches active and critical reading and helps students hone their writing. Assignment Sheet

Assignment by Molly Kirby, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview This assignment is the culmination of all the different explorations the students have completed throughout the semester. Here, they synthesize the data and methods they’ve employed to answer the research question they developed at the start of the semester, producing a research report about some…

Overview In this assignment, students take a field trip to the university archives, where they explore a collection and analyze a document of their choosing. Along with building their source analysis skills, they also explore the archive as a space and institution, learning how it’s organized and how to navigate it. This activity scaffolds…

Assignment by Kristine Hildebrandt and Molly Kirby, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview In this assignment, students plan and execute an ethnographic observation on campus. Although the activity is mostly done solo, group members share their observations and reflect on what they noticed or missed. This activity supports their work in the research team, where…

Assignment by Molly Kirby, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview In this assignment, students practice developing and delivering interview questions. As they build on previous research, they also learn to link qualitative and quantitative methods. This activity supports their work in the research team, where they might conduct their own interviews. Assignment Sheet

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Assignment by Molly Kirby, building on materials by Rachel Bradley and Margaret Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview In this assignment, students learn how to evaluate existing survey results and how different disciplines approach qualitative data. Through this process, they also learn key critical data concepts. This activity supports their work in the research…

Assignment by Molly Kirby, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview In this assignment, students practice drafting a survey instrument, which they’ll later deploy to a segment of the on-campus community. Through this process, students learn how question design shapes their results, intentionally and unintentionally. In CODE123: Research and Systems Thinking, students practice with their chosen…