| Title | CanLit Guides |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 3 Years |
| Initiation | 04/01/2011 |
| Completion | 08/31/2014 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Title | Reading and Writing Canada: Web Resource Guides in Research and Writing for Use in University Courses about Canada |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2011/2012 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Margery Fee |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 51,196 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Margery Fee, Professor Emerita, English - Canadian Literature, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 1: Summary | Canadian Literature (CL) proposes the development of two online resource guides to enhance teaching and learning in undergraduate courses, particularly Canadian literature and Canadian studies, in year one, and to launch the guides in classrooms in year two. These guides will enable students and instructors to easily access CL’s vast collection of academic criticism and its content-rich databases. The Canadian Author and Topic Resource Guide (Author/Topic Guide) will provide an online study guide to selected topics and Canadian literary authors and their works, including discussion questions, author information, and compilations of academic material published in Canadian Literature. The Concise Online Guide to Research and Critical Summary in Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies (Research and Summary Guide) will include the following elements: guidelines for searching out and evaluating scholarly articles in Canadian literature and Canadian studies; articles and sample critical summaries, and guidelines for planning, documenting and writing summaries. |
| Year 2: Project Title | Reading and Writing Canada: Web Resource Guides in Research and Writing for Use in University Courses about Canada. Phase II - Web Resource Guides Integration and Implementation |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2012/2013 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Margery Fee |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 49,773 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Margery Fee, Professor Emerita, English - Canadian Literature, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: Summary | Canadian Literature (CL) seeks to refine and expand its TLEF-funded (2011) online resource guides. The guides (launching in June 2012) draw on and enhance the accessibility of CL’s vast online databases for students and teachers by (1) presenting modules focused on historical and thematic connections and questions for Canadian literary analysis, and (2) guiding students through critical assessment and writing skills for literary criticism. This next phase seeks to broadly publicize and integrate these guides into UBC courses through the development of information packages, departmental presentations, and integration meetings with instructors. To comprehensively test these guides, a graduate Teaching Assistant will also help develop and teach a course drawing extensively on the guides. These course integration meetings will inform the subsequent editing and expansion of the guides in terms of both user-friendliness and comprehensiveness based on student and teacher assessments and evaluations, developing a more refined second edition. |
| Year 3: Project Year | Year 3 |
| Year 3: Funding Year | 2013/2014 |
| Year 3: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 3: Principal Investigator | Margery Fee |
| Year 3: Funded Amount | 75,755 |
| Year 3: Team Members | Margery Fee, Professor Emerita, English - Canadian Literature, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 3: Summary | Canadian Literature (CL) seeks to complete its online resource guides, CanLit Guides (CLG): see www.canlitguides.ca. The guides draw on CL’s vast online databases for students and teachers by (1) presenting modules focused on historical and topical connections and questions for Canadian literary analysis, (2) integrating relevant resources across the genres from the journal, and (3) guiding students through critical assessment and writing skills for literary criticism. Having completed three guides in the first two years of the project, in the final phase we will complete two more guides. We will also respond to feedback from current development and implementation regarding user-friendliness and learning needs by widening the breadth, navigability, and multimedia elements of CLG. Finally, we will solidify the infrastructure necessary to sustain the project by hosting a digital development workshop, and developing external submission criteria and other online systems. |