{"id":586,"date":"2023-03-31T22:27:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/?page_id=586"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:35:53","slug":"faqs-about-the-dossier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/assignments\/specialization-dossier\/faqs-about-the-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQs about the dossier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h4 id=\"at-5860\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">The person I&#8217;m interviewing has done a few different things. Do I need to stick with the job category you identified?<\/h4><div id=\"ac-5860\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p>No, you don&#8217;t. For example, Jay Colbert has been a music librarian, a digital collections specialist, and a metadata specialist. I chose to write about his current profession, music librarianship, but it would be fine to switch gears and write about a different area he&#8217;s worked in.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h4 id=\"at-5861\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">How am I supposed to know about trends in the field?<\/h4><div id=\"ac-5861\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p>This is one of the skills I want you to practice! Once you&#8217;ve identified major conferences and journals for the field, you should skim titles and abstracts in order to gain a sense of what issues people are talking about. It&#8217;s unlikely any piece of writing or scholarship will directly answer this question; instead, you need to survey the literature in order to <em>infer<\/em> the answer. Of course, you can also ask your expert in the interview.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h4 id=\"at-5862\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">How will you grade the assignment?<\/h4><div id=\"ac-5862\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p>You can find a rubric on our Canvas site, under the &#8220;Rubric&#8221; menu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h4 id=\"at-5863\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">How should my group turn in our dossier?<\/h4><div id=\"ac-5863\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p>Because of the way Canvas works, please turn in your project in <em>two places<\/em>: via the &#8220;Specialization dossier&#8221; assignment <em>and<\/em> as a post on your section&#8217;s discussion board, as part of the Specialization Dossiers thread. That way your fellow students will be able to benefit from it. Please designate one person in your group to be the official turner-inner.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h4 id=\"at-5864\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">Should we cite our sources?<\/h4><div id=\"ac-5864\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p>Yes, please! You&#8217;re welcome to use any citation style you like; just be consistent.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":567,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/586\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270s23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}