Research: It Starts with a Feeling | Inside Higher Ed

I have been struggling with a couple of things. One is what to do with this blog. There are few things worse than a stale blog, and this blog certainly is stale. As I have noted before, I started this blog to address communications to students when I was teaching multiple courses at MCTC. Now, I am only teaching one course per semester, so I no longer have that same need. So, I could just kill this blog. And I still might.

The other thing I was struggling with was what to do with this article:  Research: It Starts with a Feeling | Inside Higher Ed. I think this is an important article for students to read. I have struggled this semester to get my students to move beyond "I think.." and "I feel..." statements to backing them up with some evidence. To move from opinion to opinion, but backed up with the thoughts, the scholarship, of others. To move beyond the superficial, the anecdote, to see that as an example, as a metaphor, for a broader concept and to engage with that material in a way that is introspective and meaningful and building a scholarly discourse. So, I decided to link to that article here and blog about it.

Now I hope I remember that it's here.