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Writing Project #2: Composition Case Study Purpose The Composition Case Study connects to the UWP1 learning outcome of using research to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize prior knowledge on a subject and create new knowledge through primary research. The purpose of the Composition Case Study Project is to conduct a case study of a composer by interviewing the composer about his or her writing processes, rhetorically analyzing the composer’s work, and reflecting on what you learned about composing from conducting the case study. The composer can be a fellow student, a workplace professional, a family member, a local performer, etc. You’ll present the results of this research in the form of a scholarly research article. In addition to interviewing the composer, you’ll integrate secondary sources— research others have conducted. You’ll include the Composition Case Study Project in your final portfolio. You’ll also give a brief presentation on your Composition Case Study Project for the final exam. You’ll give a three-minute presentation that provides an overview of your case study findings using a visual aid (a poster, a PowerPoint, a Prezi, etc.) and answer questions from the audience. Genre Case studies are a common genre in academic writing in every field, whether it’s a psychologist describing a patient or a business report focused on a specific company or a primatologist studying a particular band of gorillas. Scholarly case studies are most often published in print mode (articles in scholarly journals and books published by scholarly presses), but scholarly case studies are also presented in digital form (in documentary videos or websites in online journals). The tone and style of a scholarly article tends to be formal and serious, with the use of academic language and jargon appropriate for the subject and discipline. Readers expect scholarly articles to engage in conversation with the research that’s been done on the topic, and this means citing and integrating peer reviewed academic sources from scholarly journals and books. Citing only a few related research studies is never enough to show that you’ve deeply engaged with your topic as a scholar. Although most research articles cite dozens of sources, since this is a small research project, you should cite at least 4-6 sources. You are welcome to cite any of the scholarly articles we’ve read for class. Audience and Circulation The primary audience for your Literacy Case Study Project is the academic discourse community of UWP1 students and teachers. You’ll have at least one reader from an academic background (myself) since this research project will be included in the final portfolio. You’ll also have the option of circulating your Composition Case Study Project to a wider academic audience. You can submit it for consideration for the UWP student writing journal, Readings about Writing. You also have the option of circulating your research project to a wider audience online through a blog, website, YouTube video, etc. Format Research articles have different formats depending on the discipline (for example, research articles in the sciences often use a more “objective” tone, less direct quotes, and more visuals like charts and graphs than research articles in the humanities). But academic research articles in every field use some basic formatting conventions: there’s often an abstract at the beginning that summarizes the article; there’s usually an introduction and discussion of related research, a discussion of research methods, and a discussion of the results and significance of the research. Different sections of a scholarly research article are usually divided by headings. The length of a scholarly research article will depend on the size of the study and the assignment guidelines (if it’s written for a college class) or the journal submission guidelines (if it’s written for publication in a scholarly journal). You’ll be conducting a small research study, so your research article should be between 1,800 and 2,000 words. For non-print case studies like videos or websites, there will be fewer words but more of the work will go into creating visuals, video editing, audio editing, etc. In the field of Writing Studies the most commonly used citation style is the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), so we’ll use APA style. APA highlights the year of the research you’re citing, and in Writing Studies we focus on the year since older research may not be as relevant as current studies. If you decide you’d like to write a research article to submit to the journal Young Scholars in Writing you should use MLA style, since that journal requires MLA and not APA style. Cover Memos You’ll write two cover memos for this assignment: one with your peer response workshop draft, and one with the revised draft we discuss in our one-on-one conference. The word counts for the process memos do not count towards the project word count. *The cover memo for the peer response workshop draft should be one paragraph describing what you think the strengths and weaknesses of the draft are and one paragraph with any questions or concerns you have for your peer responders. This should be at least 200 words. *The cover memo for the one-on-one conference should be one paragraph describing what you think the strengths and weaknesses of the draft are, one paragraph with any questions or concerns you have for me, and one paragraph summarizing the feedback you got from your peer responders and what revisions you made based on your peers’ response. This should be at least 400 words. For this project I will be giving you a face-to-face response in a one-on-one conference rather than a written response. Criteria See the UWP1 portfolio rubric. Important Dates May 6: Bring a print or digital copy of your Composition Case Study Project Proposal to class. May 13: Upload a draft of your Composition Case Study Project to canvas before class and bring a print or digital copy to class. Minimum 900 words. May 20—22: Bring a print or digital copy of your revised Composition Case Study Project to your 20 minute one-on-one conference with me. Minimum 1,200 words. June 9: Include the final draft of your Literacy Case Study Project as part of your final portfolio. 1,800-2,000 words. Submit the portfolio to canvas by midnight. June 13: Final exam three-minute oral presentation on your Composition Case Study Project followed by a Q and A. Use a visual aid in the presentation (poster, PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.). My Brief introduction (However I need you to come up with a main question) My Case study is about the College student association, more specifically is about CU, the Chinese Union. CU is an student organization that located in our university and every students in this organization are Chinese. And this organization only published at our school for less than an year. During the past one year, they held many events on the campus. They provided some useful resources through their wechat channel for students. And CU is an nonprofit student organization. I have many questions for this organization. The first question is why there are so many students joined the CU. What are the reasons that CU organization draw this many students’ interests. The second question is what is the purpose they established the CU student organization. Third, how CU worked at campus I heard there are many department in CU, thus I’m interested in how this organization operate at campus. Those are the main questions I wanted to do in this research, however, I am still struggling with my thesis and develop a main question for this research. For this topic, I might do research about similar students organization. Since I have many friends who participate in CU, I will ask them some questions about their organization. I currently at a early stage for this research, for my next stage. I will develop a main research question that big enough to let me start my research. Point, Prezi, etc.). Recognize the Common Challenges of Research Design and The Available Solutions Introduction In a recent study, neuroscientists reported that the left hemisphere of the dog brain is responsible for processing spoken words (Neuroskeptic, 2017). After the paper was published in the journal Science, researchers revealed that they had mixed up the left and right orientation in all of the dogs’ fMRI images. Researchers failed to notice that humans and dogs display different body positions when interacting with MRI scanners, which resulted in a left/right confusion. An error in research design is likely to cause serious problem like this. After hypothesizing a theory and devising a testable research question, researchers formulate a set of methods and procedures that would be used in collecting and analyzing data (Morling, 2015). The essential purpose of a research design is to test a hypothesis (Gerring, 2011). By incorporating the set of methods and procedures for the hypothesis testing, researchers create a framework to find answers for the research questions. Throughout the process of developing research methods, researchers would more or less encounter some difficulties that they need to overcome. Due to the enormous branches of the academic family tree, research focused on oceanography might be distantly related to a study on political science. However, researchers with different academic backgrounds generally face similar types of challenges, which include the selection of specific types of research and the consideration of trade-off issues. Likewise, researchers can resolve these issues by making detailed plans in advance, reading and analyzing literature in the related fields, and seeking assistance from other experienced researchers. Background Information Regarding Research Design In order to recognize the challenges that researchers face while doing research, various research method used in different contexts have to be categorized and defined first. The most commonly known and appreciated way to approach a research topic is by performing a welldesigned experiment. Scientists generally regard the analysis of data collected by experiments as the most trustworthy first-hand information (Morling, 2015). That is because the experimental research is completed in a controlled environment. By manipulating one or more variables and measuring changes in other variables, experimental research can determine a causal relation between the manipulated and the measured variables (Gerring, 2011). A causal relation means a change in A directly results in a change in B. The discovery of causality would produce significant effects on the studied topic. It’s worth noting that researchers don’t always have the intention or the capacity to perform an experiment. If researchers are not looking for a causal relationship, or the cost of a strict experimental setting is unbearable, a correlational research can be performed to determine if the variables are correlated. A correlational study doesn’t manipulate variables. Hence, a correlated relationship between two variables does not prove that one caused the other since none of the variables has been manipulated (Siegle, 2015). However, correlational research can still prove that two or more variables studied in the research are connected in some ways. Correlational research design doesn’t require the same high standards as an experimental research design would require. In many other times, researchers are not trying to find any pattern among various variables. Instead, they are interested in describing the characteristics of the population or phenomenon (Bhat, 2018). This type of research is known as descriptive research, which primary focuses on depicting the nature of a phenomenon without explaining why it happens. Survey methods, naturalistic observations and case studies are three distinctive methods of descriptive research. A common difficulty of almost all research design is the selection of statistical methods. Ultimately, researchers will have to provide evidence that their findings are statistically significant. Robustness tests, t-statistics and model-fit statistics are all different statistical tools that serve different functions (Gerring, 2011). In order to achieve a significant result, researchers would have to figure out what kind of statistical method they would use for their research projects on the stage of research design, so that the procedures of data collection would not be in conflict with future data analysis. Common Challenges of Research Design One of the first issue that researchers have to address is what type of research method they would choose to approach their research topics. Experimental research, of course, is the most ideal research design. However, not all of the researchers have the available resources or the suitable timing to perform a flawless experiment. Apart from these limitations, researchers might think other research methods are more appropriate in response to their research questions. In a political science paper, for instance, the researchers are trying to examine the role of the Latino vote in the 2012 election (Wallace, 2012). At this point, the researchers don’t want to establish a causal relation in this study because it would be nearly impossible to set up clear and operational experimental standards in this context. Consequently, researchers applied a correlational study by analyzing the database in order to evaluate whether Latinos would generally support Obama. Researchers also have to take the trade-off into account by determining the scale of the studies. External validity and internal validity are two important validities of the research studies. External validity refers to the generalizability of the study and internal validity concerns whether it avoids confounding variables (Morling, 2015). The level of external validity is normally inversely proportional to the internal validity. A larger sample size would generally allow greater resemblance to the population. However, it would also bring more procedural problems to the studies. Researchers sometimes have to adjust their procedures in accordance with their original goals and expectations of the studies. For example, in an ecology experiment, the researchers chose to sacrifice the external validity of the experiment in exchange for greater internal validity (Harrison, Gibbs, & Winfree, 2017). Researchers were attempting to set up a causal relation between the types of landscapes and bees’ species. The site selection for the field study was not random, which inevitably reduced the external validity of the experiment. By doing this, however, researchers could be more successful in ruling out any third variable while measuring the diversity of bees’ species, which in turn enhanced the internal validity of the experiment. Method In this case study, I conducted an interview with Michael Culshaw-Maurer, who is currently a fourth year PhD researcher majoring in ecology. Michael has had several years’ experience in designing research projects, and he was willing to share his research experience with me. During the interview, I asked several questions regarding what he thought of the common challenges of research design and the tricks he used to tackle these issues. The content of the interview was recorded in my notebook by pen. Result From Michael’s point of view, the most difficult challenge he encountered with research design was the tradeoff between clarity and ecological reality. It was tricky to evaluate if the lab conditions could mimic the scenarios in the real world. Other more realistic problems he had to consider were funding and time. The amount of funding would determine the scale of the experiment he could afford, and the timing was very crucial for studies involving interactions between insects and plants. Michael also provided his insight in terms of how to address these issues mentioned above. He thought that making detailed plans in advance could effectively solve the timing and the funding issues. In regards to the trade-off problem, Michael said he would constantly seek help from his instructor and other experienced researchers to determine the ideal outcomes he would expect to get from the experiment, and thus revised his research method accordingly, Although the final call was made by him, gathering advice from other faculty helped him select the most appropriate method that suited the purpose of the study. Discussion In order to design a research study which can effectively test the hypothesis, researchers must know which type of research method might best answer the research question. In Michael’s case, ecology studies generally favor the methods of experimental design, because a strong causal effect could lead to meaningful future studies in this area. Researchers also have to consider the potential pros and cons for their research design. It would be ideal for researchers to know what would they expect from their studies prior to the study. Researchers can also interact with other researchers in this field to verify the feasibility and the meaningfulness of current research design. Getting feedback from other researchers, especially the experts in the field, can prevent the research project from deviating from the track. Michael said that attending seminars hosted by other departments of biology was inspirational for him. Consulting researchers with expertise in different fields might have unexpected surprises. Michael emphasized that he was always enlightened by the methods used by other researchers. A broader conceptual question can spread across different systems, which means the research methods originally used for other contexts might also be applicable. Varying timing and limited funding would force researchers to adjust some aspects of their research design in order to achieve an optimal outcome from the studies. Reading literacies in relation to the research topic can greatly assist the design of research. Some aspects of the research method described in the paper might be helpful for other research projects. A trick used by Michael is to look at the citations of the papers that interested him in order to find other related papers. By using this method, researchers can quickly gather considerable amounts of papers that may contain the information they need. Likewise, reading literacies from different fields of science might also provide a new insight on how to approach the research question. Conclusion In general, researchers are struggling with several common issues in research design, including the selection of appropriate methods and the determination of the scale of studies. Researchers can address these issues by seeking assistance from other experienced researchers and making a plan for the research studies in advance. An important lesson I’ve learned from my study is that the stages of research design should not be treated lightly. A single flow of the research design has the power of undermining the research results dramatically. A well-designed, applicable research plan, on the other hand, can save researchers from trivial troubles after engaging in research. A peer-reviewed, carefully assessed research plan not only contributes to valid results, but also makes researchers’ lives a lot easier. References Morling, B. (2015). Research Methods in Psychology (3rd ed.). Siegle, D. (2015). Introduction to correlation research. Retrieved from University of Connecticut website: https://researchbasics.education.uconn.edu/correlation/ Bhat, A. (2018). Descriptive research: definition, characteristics, methods, examples and advantages. Retrieved from https://www.questionpro.com/blog/descriptive-research/ Gerring, J. (2011). How Good Is Good Enough? A Multidimensional, Best-Possible Standard for Research Design. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/23056380?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=rese arch&searchText=design&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fsd%3D2000%26a mp%3BsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bed%3D%26amp%3BQuery%3Dresearch %2Bdesign&ab_segments=0%2Ftbsub1%2Frelevance_config_with_defaults&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Wallace, S. (2012). It's Complicated: Latinos, President Obama, and the 2012 Election. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00922.x Harrison, T., Gibbs, J., & Winfree, R. (2017). Forest bees are replaced in agricultural and urban landscapes by native species with different phenologies and life-history traits. Retrieved from Neuroskeptic. (2017). Dogs Don’t Process Language with Their Left Brains, After All. Retrieved from http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/04/07/dogs-dontlanguage-left-brains/#.XIC1iShKg2x
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Introduction
Students’ Union are available on almost every school grounds and speak to an assortment
of college interests, for example, network administration, political activism, Greek associations,
multicultural activities, the expressive arts, and numerous others. They are festivities of the gifts,
interests, and assorted variety of the college body that make up every college. These associations
likewise offer a "concealed educational modules" that not just enables colleges to wind up
talented players in authoritative fields, yet additionally gives advantages to their networks. This
"shrouded educational modules" builds in general fulfillment with the school understanding and
gives a way to colleges to improve their hierarchical and general fundamental abilities. Research
demonstrates that support in college associations adds to a more grounded promise to "helping
other people, serving their networks, advancing racial comprehension, doing humanitarian effort,
and working for not-for-profit associations.

Colleges figure out how to settle on choices and changes that lead to significant
development in their very own associations. Regardless of whether an association collects more
cash, includes more members, or builds a feeling of mindfulness, these associations are
developing as the colleges learn. The advantages to the network are not unimportant. For
instance, a Move Long distance race called "Thon," the mission of which is to fund-raise for
pediatric malignancy, began at Penn State in 1973 (Pedersen, 2016). Right around forty years
after the fact, the association has raised over $78 million, drew in 15,000 colleges every year,
and become the biggest college run generosity in every nation. There were students who started
a national development of Move Long distance races that connects with colleges in genuine

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authoritative inquiries and difficulties. The paper aims to clarify the reason that the research is
conducted and also the milieu of the situation. Research goals will be explained by research
questions. The basic introduction of the Student Union is also exposed.
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