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Where research begins : choosing a research project that matters to you (and the world) / Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea.

By: Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) [author.]Contributor(s): Rea, Christopher G [author.]Series: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishingPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226801117; 9780226817446Subject(s): ResearchDDC classification: 001.4 LOC classification: AZ105 | .M85 2022
Contents:
Introduction -- Become a self-centered researcher. Questions; What's your problem?; Designing a project that works -- Get over yourself. How to find your problem collective; How to navigate your field; how to begin; What's next in your research journey?
Summary: "This book leads you to your research project while keeping your own preferences, abilities, and values centered. The authors place a strong and welcome emphasis on finding a research project that is right for you and that matters to you. The book includes student-tested exercises and many excellent examples of how-to-do-it and how-not-to. Each chapter includes "Try This Now" exercises and games designed to help you achieve a specific set of goals: generating questions, refining questions, discovering the patterns that connect the questions together, and the problem that motivates you-and other researchers. "Commonly Made Mistakes" are highlighted, as is advice for when and how to approach a "Sounding Board" (a teacher, mentor, or other advisor). At the close of each chapter, the key tools and exercises are revisited, providing a clear sense of the benchmarks you've reached"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

Introduction -- Become a self-centered researcher. Questions; What's your problem?; Designing a project that works -- Get over yourself. How to find your problem collective; How to navigate your field; how to begin; What's next in your research journey?

"This book leads you to your research project while keeping your own preferences, abilities, and values centered. The authors place a strong and welcome emphasis on finding a research project that is right for you and that matters to you. The book includes student-tested exercises and many excellent examples of how-to-do-it and how-not-to. Each chapter includes "Try This Now" exercises and games designed to help you achieve a specific set of goals: generating questions, refining questions, discovering the patterns that connect the questions together, and the problem that motivates you-and other researchers. "Commonly Made Mistakes" are highlighted, as is advice for when and how to approach a "Sounding Board" (a teacher, mentor, or other advisor). At the close of each chapter, the key tools and exercises are revisited, providing a clear sense of the benchmarks you've reached"-- Provided by publisher.