Assignment Title:
Your Scholarly Identity


Course:
GRAD 5124 - Research Skills for Graduate Students


Target Audience:
Graduate students 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:
“Your Scholarly Identity.” 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 general Grad 5124 course shell. It is part of Week 1 where students are engaged in thinking about their professional and scholarly identity. This assignment is a ‘Graded Discussion’ assignment type (in the Canvas learning management system). It asks students to reflect on what they learned about in this module. 




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Assignment Title: 


Your Scholarly Identity




Assignment Text:


Earlier in the module, you introduced yourself to your instructor and your classmates. While you were asked to share information about your research, your tone and purpose were fairly informal. Now, let's think about your biography as a scholar. In the first part of this assignment, write a bio showcasing your identity as a scholar. Imagine that you're presenting at a conference, and you need a bio for the conference program. It has to be 100 words or less. What would you say? 
In the second part of this assignment, in 100-200 words, reflect on your choices in creating your bio. Why did you include what you included? How is this bio different from how you introduced yourself earlier in the module? What did you have to leave out?