{"id":4885,"date":"2026-06-15T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/?guid=a2958b57ddd2c2a67cbf3313c4f805a2"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:23:10","slug":"welcome-to-introduction-to-research-critical-reading-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/welcome-to-introduction-to-research-critical-reading-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Introduction to Research: Critical Reading and Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"by Amy Zidulka. &nbsp;<p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Hello\u00a0<span style=\"font-size:1rem;\">Ariel, Gen, Jenn, Ron, Claire, Kelly, Renata, Florian, Celine, Chris, Christina, Carla, and Craig,<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:1rem;\">I have spent the morning perusing your biographies and blog posts, and it sure has led me to feel excited about our time together. I am quite astounded by what an interesting group you are, and also by how many common interests we share (which we can discuss when we meet).<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:1rem;color:rgb(73,80,87);\">You will notice that there is a weekly zoom meeting on Tuesdays from\u00a0\u00a05-6:30 Pacific time. I hope you can make it, but if you can't, know that the session will be recorded.\u00a0 I will introduce myself tomorrow, but in the meantime, you can learn a bit about me via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroads.ca\/people\/dr-amy-zidulka\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my bio the Royal Roads website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:1rem;color:rgb(73,80,87);\">One goal of the class is for you to begin to consider what research questions most interest you. In service of that goal, I invite you to set up a 1-on-1 meeting with me, so we can begin to get to know each other and discuss your preliminary thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-size:1rem;color:rgb(73,80,87);\">I have availability on Thursday and Friday this week--with some Saturday appointments if those days don't work for you. You can schedule using this link from the Moodle site:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.royalroads.ca\/moodle\/mod\/url\/view.php?id=908053&amp;forceview=1\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/moodle.royalroads.ca\/moodle\/mod\/url\/view.php?id=908053&amp;forceview=1<\/a><\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Finally, there are two class members who are new to the cohort. I know you will make Renata and Chris feel welcome. <span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\">I look forward to working with you! Amy<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><br \/><\/p><p><\/p>\n<p><\/p><p><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Amy Zidulka. &nbsp;Hello\u00a0Ariel, Gen, Jenn, Ron, Claire, Kelly, Renata, Florian, Celine, Chris, Christina, Carla, and Craig,I have spent the morning perusing your biographies and blog posts, and it sure has led me to feel excited about our time toget&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructor-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}