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As literacy researchers, you will need to identify with a research methodology that is well suited to both your research aim and worldview (i.e. postivist, postmodernist, pragmatic etc.) Methodological designs also identify the types of questions and claims that can be addressed by varied tools and approaches of inquiry. This week you are reading about four different research design approaches: discourse analysis- text, ethnography, experimental and formative. As researchers, we will be tasked to engage in "feats of super human strength" to improve and protect the future of literacy education and beyond! Click here for some MUSICAL INSPIRATION

**Assignment**

 * Step 1:** Read chapters 5 through 8 in Duke and Mallette. Pick one of the four methodologies that best resonates with you or your research agenda (or best fit possible :) ).


 * Step 2:** Go to one or all of the three web sites below to determine what Super Research Hero you would be. **//Try to answer the questions//** //**in a frame of mind that represents your selected methodology**// (e.g. discourse analysis- text, ethnography, experimental and formative). You may go to all sites and pick a super hero result that works best for you.

What Super Research Hero Would You Be? [] [] [] (**You do not have to sign up to get results, look in lower right hand of sign-up window and click on "Skip to results"**)


 * Step 3:** Go to Super Research Hero Design Forum located in our class Moodle in the March 29: Online Class Block
 * Post a response, include the name of your Super Research Hero, a picture of your super hero if you can, three characteristics of your Super Research Hero, and three ways those characteristics fit your selected research design from this week’s readings.


 * Step 4:** Read the profiles of your peers and compare your Super Research Hero and associated characteristics with theirs. Post a reply to **AT LEAST** two peers in the forum.
 * Find one classmate with a similar Super Research Hero and one with a Super Research Hero very different from yours. Reply to their post with your thoughts on how their Super Research Hero delineates their choice of a research method covered this week.

Please post your **original response** to the Forum no later than Friday, April 2. This will allow others adequate opportunity to reply to your posts.