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as I reflect on my own semester teaching bibliography and research methods for the third or fifth time (depending how you count them), I'm returning to this thread and wondering if there's any course as fraught as these to teach. 1/4 https://twitter.com/MWilsonKimber/status/1334321233404506114
on one side, the scylla of taking too hands-off an approach on the mechanics of research, thereby leaving some in the dark on how to find every type of source efficiently; on the other, the charybdis of harping on basics for so long that the experienced feel condescended to 2/4
and it's often early-career/junior scholars assigned to these, too fresh from diss work to remember how confusing it all can be, yet not seasoned enough to know all of the pitfalls. I think I struck a good balance this time, but we'll see as I finish grading final projects! 3/4
each student is coming in with a unique experience level, set of assumptions, attitude toward academia, facility with English-language scholarly writing, etc. You can teach it like a "class" if that's the remit, but maybe it just has to be more like 20 independent studies. 4/4
