TY - JOUR AU - Hofmeister, Heather PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Class Discussion Topics for early in the semester: Approaching assignments JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/class-discussion-topics-for-early-in-the-semester SP - AB - The idea behind this exercise is to help students think about scientific articles not as "literature" to be passively consumed uncritically but as "recipes" for discovering things. Many empirical articles are written, ideally, so that the scientific readership could at least hope to reproduce the findings. In this way, the article is like a recipe, and for students to think of an article that way can help them to ask more critical questions and pay closer attention to the methods and outcomes. If they are creative, they can even think of ways to "improve" the recipe." ER -