This week, we focused on the following:
- Communicating to your audience(s) contextual information and limitations important to know about about your data
- Communicating your interpretation of your data-analysis (or data analyses of others) in explicit ways based on that contextual knowledge
- Using examples when writing about data
- Organizing your white paper
Next Time
-OPTIONAL: Half-Draft of Data-Driven White Paper. You can submit as much or as little as you want, just like you did for the Half-Draft of the Data Set Biography and Influence Project. Feel free to submit it on March 22 or some other time next week. The first draft is due April 7, so please send to me at least before spring break.
-See you in class on Monday, March 22. We will talk about writing about data in terms of methods. We will also have a visitor that day–Dr. Mary McGlynn–to observe the class.
Having already completed of my white paper draft, I received constructive feedback from Professor Libertz. For a second draft, I could reduce the length of my paper and include more secondary data to support my overall thesis.