The Dialogues@RU Journal, originally founded by Michael Cripps in 2002, is a wonderful scholarly journal containing the best student research papers from students who took the course, 201 Research the Disciplines. The criteria for selection of these papers is as follows:
- The paper could serve as a strong research paper model for future 201 students
- The paper displays convincing content and general intelligence
- The paper demonstrates a depth of research, having used multiple scholarly sources in meaningful and connective ways
- The paper is not biased, but contains counter-arguments and complexity, so that in-depth analysis and interpretation, based on textual evidence, is apparent
