Research Paper Analysis
Last revised: August 20, 2023Overview
The goal of this homework is to apply a disability model/framework to analyzing a technology or service currently in use in the world. It is also helpful to your peers, it is due 2 days ahead of the lecture on that topic.
Learning Goals / Competencies
This homework may contribute to
- Your competency grade on understanding how to apply Positive Disability Principals to Research
- Your competency grade on Disability Model Analysis
- Your competency grade on Accessible Document Creation
- Other competencies you choose, if relevant
Details
To complete this assignment, you will need to do the following
0. Select an article to focus on.
You should pick one of the research papers assigned as a reading in class, or a paper of your own choosing (requires instructor approval).
1. Select and define three principals/models you will use to analyze it.
You may analyze and critique it using concepts such as
- One of the medical, social or other models of disability as defined in this book chapter
- The concept of a disability dongle as defined in this post
- Up to three of the 10 principles of disability justice
- A feminist theory of universal design
- Something else approved by the instructors
1. Read and summarize article on the topic you have selected.
Read your article and summarize it. Your summary should be about a two paragraphs long. The first paragraph should explain what the paper is about. The second paragraph should answer the following questions:
- Is this project ableist?
- What parts of the work are accessible and what are not (for example, are both design tools, and their outputs accessible?)
- Are people with disabilities engaged in guiding this work? At what stages?
- Is it being used to give control and improve agency for people with disabilities
- Is it addressing the whole community (intersectionality, multiple disabled people, multiply disabled people)
2. Analyze it from the perspective of the principles/models you chose
How did the article you chose address, or fail to address, your there principles?
For each principle
- Name and define it
- Write 1-2 paragraphs (250-500 words) explaining how it relates to the article. Does it highlight a flaw? Or a good aspect?
Turnin
This should be shared with the class on the discussion board and submitted on Canvas. Your writeup should include
- The article you read
- Your summary of the article
- Your analysis including definitions of the 3 principles/models you picked and your analysis of them
- Remember the academic conduct guidelines and tell us if and how you used generative AI in your assignment, or any other sources of information you used.