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Cultivating Inquiry Skills: A Guide for WRD 110

This guide emphasizes the importance of teaching inquiry in writing and research. It underscores that good arguments arise after asking many questions, discussing how to foster these skills in students. Through engaging with various topics such as history, education, architecture, and health, students learn to observe the world, articulate problems, and pose meaningful questions. The guide outlines three key goals for teaching inquiry: nurturing curiosity, forming questions from observations, and using those questions as the basis for research and writing assignments.

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Cultivating Inquiry Skills: A Guide for WRD 110

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  1. Research & Inquiry A guide for WRD 110

  2. Why teach inquiry? Good arguments only come after we’ve asked lots of questions. BUT, how do you learn to ask questions?

  3. I wonder . . . what the history of that old house by me is. if podcasts could be used for educational purposes. what age “gifted” courses should be offered to children. • whether anyone has studied lay theories of architecture. • what the significance of Abel’s name is in Sons of Anarchy. • if vegan diets are proven to be healthier.

  4. “Looking for Trouble” • Catherine Savini’s essay (perfect for students). • Use problems to begin a writing assignment. In other words, look for trouble. Step #1: Notice Step #2: Articulate a problem Step #3: Pose fruitful questions Step #4: Identify what is at stake.

  5. Trying out trouble Step #1: Notice Step #2: Articulate a problem Step #3: Pose fruitful questions Step #4: Identify what is at stake.

  6. 3 goals for teaching inquiry • Teach students how to be curious about the world around them. • Teach students to form questions from those observations. • Teach students that their questions are the jumping off point for research.

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