Writing and New Technologies
SCRIBO RESEARCH QUESTION AND LITERATURE SEARCH TOOL , 4TH ED.
Lotte Rienecker
Educational consultant, freelance, Copenhagen, Denmark
th Scribo Research Question and Literature Search Tool, 4 ed. is an interactive tool which supplies the student writer with suggestions and information on research papers and library searches. With a dialogue of 28 questions sequenced to support the workinprogress, explanations and real model examples from university and college research papers and BA theses, Scribo helps the student process his/her initial ideas, and structure the research design, write a suitable research question and conduct an information and literature search. The resource is an answer to the often voiced need of supervisors and information specialists of having students prepare in a structured manner for supervision meetings and information searches. Scribo’s content and design is based on a genre pedagogy approach and scaffolds the student’s research paper design and information search closely. It is based on the author’s and Peter Stray Jörgensens academic writing textbook The Good Paper. Scribo is now in use in 18 HE institutions in Denmark, and some 32.000 students have logged in as users in the past 10 years making Scribo a research paper writing tool with a very substantive outreach, and a more interactive supplement to an – any academic writing textbook.
References
Rienecker, L. 2014, Scribo Research Question and Literature Search Tool , www.scribo.dk 4th edn. Samfundslitteratur, Frederiksberg Rienecker, L & Stray Jörgensen, P, 2013, The Good Paper, (translated into 4 languages). Samfundslitteratur, Frederiksberg