---The research paper----
this is an ongoing conversation between writers and readers
what does the word problem mean to researchers?
- not the same kinds of problems from the past
Pick a topic that interests you
start gathering information- articlces, journals, online database
A broad topic
- occupy the pages of encyclopedias
-if you can state your topic in four or five words, it is too broad
Narrower-- more important
- patterens, gaps, and puzzles show under the surface
moving from broad to narrow
do so by using descriptive words that indicate a relationship
Name your topic----- I am learning about or working on____________ ( Technology in the globalization of education)
I am studying blank_____ (TGE) because I want to find out ________ why there is a current replacement or upgrade of the traditional classroom.
why is your topic area important to anyone other than you?
This topic will not just effect future classrooms, but the Jobs in which these classrooms are preparing this generation for.
This will affect the current student generation, and the current work force.
The history of technology replacing human Jobs
EXAMPLE Broad-Narrow
Free will in Tolstoy
There is free will with in his novels
History of commercial avaition
Commercial aviation has a history
The conflict of free will and the tolstoys description of the three wars
High school v College
College
Falls short if a researcher asks no specific questions
If there is no question, then he can not offer a specific answer worth supporting
with out a answer or question to support she cannot select from the data that is relevant
Formulate questions that point you to data
WHO,WHAT,WHAT,WHERE,WHEN,WHY
Start with the basics, write down the questions you find in your research, do not stop to answer them
how does this fit into a larger developmental context?
Why did your topic come into being?
SYSTEM DIAGRAMS- allows you to figure out what the connections are
What about its own internal history? how did this come about?.
Formulate three questions? write them down!
Think about the impact of the academic disciplines?
-- branch of Knowledge--- Majors!
What other areas does this affect?
What is the historic bias?
What is the scope of the problem?
thinking about how your topic or your questions fit into a larger structure???
how do the parts fit together to make a system?
how can your topic be grouped into kinds?
what if?
Avoid fallowing questions
do not ask questions that are already answered!
- their answers are settled
- their answer would be merely speculative ( what if the moon was made of green cheese?)
-the answers are dead ends or irrelevant
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO ANYONE ELSE!?
-Consumers, the people involved, the economic supporters ( sponsors) , celebrities ( endorsements)
what will be lost if you don't answer your question?
How will not answering it keep us form understanding something else better than we do?
