Instructor: Melissa Colledge

Office: Building B #211

Office hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 3:15-3:45 or by appointment

Email: [email protected]

📜 Course Description

The AP Research course allows students to deeply explore an academic topic, problem, issue, or idea of individual interest. In AP Research, students cultivate the skills and discipline necessary to conduct independent research and inquiry in order to produce and defend their scholarly work. Students design, plan, and implement a yearlong investigation to address a research question they have generated, developed and revised. Through this inquiry, they learn research methods, employ ethical research practices, and access, analyze, and synthesize information. Students reflect on their skill development, document their processes, and curate the artifacts of their scholarly work through a process and reflection portfolio (PREP).

The course culminates in an academic paper of 4,000–5,000 words (accompanied by a performance, exhibit, or product where applicable) and a presentation with an oral defense component.

Materials

  1. Access to the internet in class, home, or nearby
  2. Computer or similar device that supports internet access
  3. Google account , Google Classroom and EBSCO access. The nature of this course requires these apps for the long term execution of projects, writing, and organizing
  4. Pens, pencils, colored pencils and/or highlighter (anything you prefer for annotating a document)
  5. One 1.5” durable three-ring binder for the Process and Reflection Portfolio (PREP) Binder. These can be of any color or design. You will be using this binder throughout the year to document your research, it should reflect you.
  6. Leedy, Paul and Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis. Practical Research: Planning and Design. 12th ed. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2013. (copies available in Google Classroom)
  7. Booth, W.C., Colomb, G.G., Williams, J.M., Bizup, J., & Fitzgerald, W.T. (2024). The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition. (In class copies available)
  8. Turabian, K.L. (2023). A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. University of Chicago Press. (In class copies available)
  9. AP Research Course and Exam Description
  10. Activities and Exercises from the 2020 AP Research Student Workbook

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