In case-studies as we've used them in CAAW, the purpose of research is to gather evidence for your proposal.

To fully annotate a text, you only need to highlight or underline key ideas. 

When engaging in critical thinking about a text, you should focus on the content and the claims, setting aside any external connections to other texts.

A good way to be an ineffective participant in a discussion is to have your phone out and to be checking it as needed to keep up with news feeds, notification, and to avoid being bored.  

If you were involved in a censorship case study and you 1) read the book under question, 2) interviewed librarians, 3) talked with teachers, 4) read the First Amendment, you would be

A Case-Based Approach to Argumentation lays out the typical structure of arguments; arguments should start with this/these rhetorical move(s): 

*** Your motivation for researching a case is

In Chapter Two of A Case-Based Approach to Argumentation, we read a sample exercise, a mini case study, involving

To determine is a source is scholarly, one thing to look for is the presence/absence of advertisements.

The basic structure of most academic arguments is

1. a central controlling idea (a claim), 
2. a stated supporting sub-point(s), and 
3. evidence and explanation of the evidence.