- Think about the following general questions
- Why are you interested in this topic? Why is this topic important?
- What question do you plan to answer? Do you have a hypothesis yet?
- What information/data do you need? How will you obtain it?
- What subproblems do you anticipate (again consider part:whole, history, use)
- How will you draw conclusions from that information? (What coding will you need to do? What software will you use?)
- What will your results be used for?
- Outline/draw an overview of your research problem plan.
- Conduct an initial review of literature and more precisely define your research problem. Again, what subproblems do you foresee arising?
- Identify Literature for Further Review
- Summarize the results of previous research to form a foundation on which to build your own research
- Collect ideas on how to gather data
- Investigate methods of data analysis
Students who have completed some research already should be honest about how they would do their project differently with aftersight. He is expected to create a new proposal based on his research and open to feedback and constructive criticism.
No coding. Initial work should be handwritten, then typed up (plaintext) as (at most) a draft outline for some sort of publication. Students will present their research proposals at the end of the day.
