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HIA Journaling Guide

The document provides guidance and questions for an Honors in Action journal to track a team's learning and growth throughout their project. It suggests journaling on choosing a theme, developing research objectives and questions, learning from sources, drawing conclusions, facing obstacles, and reflecting on how the project helped them understand the world and change their community. It prompts teams to consider how their answers changed their questions, preconceived ideas, and appreciation for lifelong service.

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HIA Journaling Guide

The document provides guidance and questions for an Honors in Action journal to track a team's learning and growth throughout their project. It suggests journaling on choosing a theme, developing research objectives and questions, learning from sources, drawing conclusions, facing obstacles, and reflecting on how the project helped them understand the world and change their community. It prompts teams to consider how their answers changed their questions, preconceived ideas, and appreciation for lifelong service.

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Honors in Action Journal

Keeping a journal throughout the Get ready; get set; go!


HIA Project is an important tool to • Congratulations on being a part of your Phi Theta
track what you learned, how you Kappa chapter’s Honors in Action Team! How did your
grew as scholars and leaders, and chapter choose the team, and how do you think you
might grow individually as a leader and a scholar during
how you met your proposed project the process?
objectives. Reflection is a significant
• What were your research objectives for the project?
part of the HIA Project rubric.
• Which Themes in the Honors Program Guide were most
interesting to you and why?
• Everyone on the HIA team should keep a journal.
• How did your group choose your Theme related to the
• Journaling can be accomplished on paper or online
Honors Study Topic?
(check out Google Docs, Glimpses, Memento, etc.)
• Does the Theme address a real-life issue in your
• Consider setting deadlines for reflections as part of
community?
your project timeline.
• What are your deadlines?

If you want good answers, ask the right


questions, and set the right objectives.
• What are your research objectives? How did you
develop them?
• What is your research question? Is your question
thoughtful and answerable?
• Is your question directly related to one of the Themes
AND the overall Honors Study Topic in the 2022/2023
Honors Program Guide?
• By what process did you develop your research
question?
• Who (faculty, advisors, librarians, experts) engaged
in the research and development that led to your
research question?
• What different disciplines can you connect to your
Theme as it relates to the Honors Study Topic?
• What are the varied perspectives and points of view
to explore?
• What sources can you identify that represent the varied
points of view about your Theme as it relates to the
Honors Study Topic?
• What are the details of your research plan (number and
type of sources, deadlines for reporting, etc.)?

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What did you learn? What conclusions • Whom will you serve? (demographics, numbers,
location, etc.)

did your team draw? • How will your project serve your campus? How will your
project serve your community?
• What academic sources did each researcher consult?
What were the three most meaningful things each • What organizations exist locally that are engaged in
researcher learned from each source that informed your actions (service, awareness, advocacy) similar to what you
understanding of the chosen Theme as it relates to the aim to do? What can you learn from their work?
Honors Study Topic? • What organizations exist in the world that are engaged
• What are the APA 7th Edition citations for the eight in actions similar to what you aim to do? How does their
academic sources you will use for your Honors in Action work inform yours?
Hallmark Award entry? • What is the specific impact you intend to make?
• What did you learn from analyzing and synthesizing your • What are the details of your strategies and plans?
team’s research?
• How are you going to measure the impact (quantitative
• What are your research conclusions? measures and qualitative measures)?
• What obstacles did you face while conducting research?
How did you overcome them?
• What are the quantitative and qualitative outcomes of
Reflect on how knowing more helped
your research?
to change you, your members, your
• How were your critical thinking and research skills
strengthened as a result of the chapter’s academic research? community, and the world.
How can you provide any evidence of this growth?
• What are the specific results and impacts of your
• How did your academic research into the Honors Study research, growth as scholars and leaders, and the
Topic help you better understand the world? resulting action?
• How have you shared the studies, research, analysis, and • What contributions to understanding the Honors Study
conclusions with chapter members, people on campus, Topic did you make by developing and implementing
and/or community members? your Honors in Action Project?
• What specific plan of action did your research • In what ways did your team emphasize intentional research?
conclusions lead you to choose? Explain how and why.
• What are the reactions and feedback from the people
and organizations with whom you collaborated?

How did your answers change your • What contributions did your team make to understanding
the importance of lifelong, intentional service?
questions? • What is necessary for your service/action project to be
• In what ways was your Honors in Action research sustained and grow?
personally challenging? • With whom did you collaborate to complete your
• How did your answers change your questions? project? 1) People on campus? 2) Community members?
How and why did you select your collaborators? How
• What pre-conceived ideas held by members of your did you communicate with them, and how did you
team were challenged and/or changed through the collectively reflect on your HIA Project?
research process?
• Did you meet your chapter’s initial objectives?
• How did you heighten awareness of self and community
What will you do with your newfound in relation to global issues as a result of your Honors in
Action Project?
knowledge? • In what ways did you increase your appreciation for value
• What did you learn during the academic research phase of informed action as a lifelong endeavor as a result of
of your HIA Project that led you to identify an action your Honors in Action Project?
that tied directly to your team’s research on the Honors
Study Topic?

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