Blog Post #1: Topic Interests
Getting Started While I have a general idea for what I want my research topic to be, I still have some fine tuning to do. The one thing I know for sure is that I want my final project to be redesigned curriculum for English 1010 and English 2010 that I can call my own. I've found teaching to be incredibly fulfilling, and I think that using my technical writing background to develop lesson plans and signature assignments would be an appropriate culmination of my time in this program. I brainstormed a few research subtopics with Dr. Joy several months ago, and a few of the ones she mentioned were instructional design, visual rhetoric, and user experience (the students would be the users). I've conducted a couple of usability tests as well, so that might be something worth looking into. The two courses I took last semester also piqued my research interests considering ethics; for one, it was algorithms and terms of service agreements, and for the other, it was how technical write...