Reading

Each lecture has a required set of readings that should be completed before lecture. Most weeks there will be one research paper and then other lighter readings such as news articles, opinion pieces, laws, regulations, or other guidance documents.

Required readings can be found on the lecture pages for each lecture.

Weekly reflection form

Every week you will be turning in a filled in form and self reflection about one of the required research paper readings for the week that contain an experiment (see below). Even though multiple papers are required reading, only one needs to be written up in the form and submitted.

If none of the papers for a week contain an experiment (rare), then you can choose any of the readings assigned that week and the study design portion is not required. Below I list all weeks where such a situation happens.

Some papers have multiple studies. For example, they might describe an interview which was then used to design and run a survey. If that happens, then fill out the form once but choose multiple options to fit the different studies. For example, for methods you might write both “interview” and “survey”.

Turn in a PDF of the form. I have provided a version in Word below as well as Markdown and a website version you can copy into your favorite editor format. The final version needs to have the same sections. But if you want to convert it to a different format, such as LaTeX, that is fine.

• Word version
• Markdown
• Website version

Known exceptions

• Week 1 - no reading reflection required
• Week 2 - there is no experiment paper assigned, so the “study design” section of the form does not need to be filled out and any paper assigned in week 2 can be chosen. Only the citation and summary are required this week.
• Week 6 - no requried readings.