Week 2: Exercise - Research
Plan
Common arguments about the strengths
and limitations of home schooling.
Purpose: To discuss the benefits and disadvantages of home schooling.
Author: Romanowski, R. H.
Audience: Educated Audience
Medium: Scholarly Journal
Dancing with Monica: Personal
perceptions of a home-school mom.
Purpose: Personal account of a positive experience of home schooling,
and what was learned.
Author: Sheehan, M.
Audience: Educated Audience
Medium: Scholarly Journal
Five-year college performance: A
study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates.
Purpose: Assess how home school students perform in comparison to
traditionally educated.
Author: Jones, P. and Gloeckner, G.
Audience: Educated Audience
Medium: Scholarly Journal
Educating children at home.
Purpose: Inform parents who are considering home schooling on what
others have done, and how it has worked.
Author: Thomas, A.
Audience: Parents considering home schooling
Medium: Book
misc.education.home-school.misc
Purpose: Provide a discussion forum for parents who home school and for
those considering home schooling.
Author: General Public
Audience: Those involved, or interested, in homeschooling
Medium: Usenet newsgroup
The most beneficial source for my paper will be scholarly articles,
especially those in peer reviewed publications. This is due to
the purpose of the paper being more scholarly in nature, rather than
focusing on personal opinion. On the other hand, doing research
on the Usenet group misc.education.home-school.misc will help me to get
a better understanding of the topic, as well as provide a place where I
can interact with those having expertise in this area. While I do
not anticipate books being a major source of material for my paper,
they do provide a tertiary source of potentially valuable information.
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