Year 3 Residency Day 2 – Implementing Scholarly Thinking
We gave our presentation today and had a lot of fun doing it. Afterwards our instructor gave us our feedback – told us what we did well, where we screwed up (which we did really really well), and how to fix it going forward. We have all been trying to get into a scholarly thinking mode for the process of writing our dissertations. However, one of the things that we learned from this exercise is that we need to apply scholarly thinking to EVERYTHING.
Scholarly thinking requires inquiry in an in-depth manner without bias and preconceptions. One must open their mind to the possibilities and not make assumptions based on surface information. Scholars look for:
- The underlying theory of what they are reading
- A model and a plan for moving forward including a possible solution
- A way to evaluate the model or plan and make changes where necessary
My group had a model and the beginnings of a plan to move forward, but was not in-depth enough for what our instructor was looking for. However, when she was giving us our feedback, our instructor pointed out that she had not given us the assignment rubrics on purpose in order to evaluate where our thinking was and expected us to perform as we had. Now she expects us to improve. Now we get to find out what’s next…
