Assignment Title:
Find a Collection


Course:
GRAD 5124 - Research Skills for Graduate Students
English Section


Target Audience:
Graduate students in English or Creative Writing at a college or research university


Last Updated:
2018


License for Reuse:
  

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


Suggested Attribution Statement:
“Find a Collection.” 2018. Course Assignment. Reused / adapted from an openly licensed (Attribution 4.0 International, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) document created for the GRAD 5124 - Library Research Skills course, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. In Supplementary Materials for "Sustaining Graduate Information Literacy Instruction: A Case Study of Best Practices" Book Chapter. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89332  




Assignment Description and Implementation Notes:


This assignment is a discussion assignment from the English section of Grad 5124 in the Using Archives and Primary Sources module in that course. This assignment is a ‘Graded Discussion’ assignment type (in the Canvas learning management system). It asks students to utilize and reflect on the knowledge and tools they learned about in this module. It also encourages course community building and peer learning by asking each student to read and respond to another student’s post.


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Discussion Title:


Find A Collection Discussion




Discussion Posting Instructions Text:


Using ArchiveGrid, Archive Finder, or the open web, find an archival collection that interests you and answer the following questions:
* How did you find this collection. What was your search strategy?
* What interests you about it?
* How could this collection connect to your research, teaching, or creative projects? or Create something using an item in this collection. 
* Please provide a link to the collection or to its description
Once you've posted, check back and comment on your classmates' posts. Are there places were you see collections having multiple uses? To receive full credit, you'll need both to respond to this post and to comment on a classmate's post.