I-Search in the Age of Information - NCTE（我搜索的信息时代,性别）.pdf

> R E A D I N G , W R I T I N G , A N D R E - P R E S E N T I N G R E S E A R C H Huntington Lyman I-Search in the Age of Information Middle school teacher Huntington Lyman takes a fresh look at the I-Search research method and shows how it can be modified to provide an effective project for middle school students. By focusing their research on potential careers, students critically evaluated sources, made human connections through interviews, and learned something about themselves in the process. s a teacher of middle school stu- and junior highs because such a project often forces stu- dents, I have found any number of dents to write in a stuffy manner (if it does not encour- Areasons to avoid research projects. I age them to become encyclopedia cribbers)” (Tchudi have long told myself that English and Huerta 29). This point crystallizes my most seri- teachers have far too much to do already. Teaching ous objection: Research assignments, particularly when students to read literature and write compositions directed toward younger students, produce poorly takes up most class time, leaving little room for the written, semi-plagiarized versions of encyclopedia study of language, the building of vocabulary, and entries. Watching students surf the Internet in recent the work in Standard English that many students years has made me even more doubtful that a research