Enhancing Academic Engagement Through Poster Projects in Advanced Courses

1. An Exemplar Academic Poster Projects for Advanced 2 Leor Cohen

2. The Mandate of Our Courses • Prepare for 21st century challenges • Real life skills and tools • Academic and Professional • Collaboration – Group Work • Construct knowledge through action • Take advantage of the opportunity • Communication skills • Engage in conversation – natural and academic contexts

3. Problems in Assignment Design Traditional: • Develop a thesis statement and support it using items in the literature. • Cherry pick quotations • Westernized Cultural Framework • Prompts for plagiarism

4. Using the CEFR CEFR Learning Outcomes: • Reception/Reading – Can obtain and synthesize information, ideas and opinions from multiple sources... • Production/Writing – Can summarize and synthesize from a variety of sources… • Production/Speaking – Can give a clear prepared academic presentation… • Reception/Listening – Can follow the essentials of lectures, talks….

5. Rebbeca Moore Howard

6. Problems in Composition • Almost no Summary or Synthesis • Patchwriting • Sentence to Sentence match-up across source and student text • Jamieson & Moore 2013:

7. Howard, Serviss, Rodrigue 2010

8. The Poster Project A Literature Review-based Research Proposal

9. The Poster Project • Literature Review game • Choosing Article 1 • Summary Process • Choosing Article 2 + Summary • Choosing Article 3 + Summary • Synthesis • Describe Relationship • Dialogue

10. Swales CARS Model

11. Dialogue from Physics

17. Assessment: Rubrics

18. An Exam: Midterm

20. Thank you!

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