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Activity 2: Research Question Milestone

Activity 2: Research Question Milestone. Research teams Use your problem area paragraph as a guide Draft up your specific research question (1-3 sentences) Specific question i.e., Is X graphic interface transferable to an audio solution for the visually impaired? Define your terms

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Activity 2: Research Question Milestone

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  1. Activity 2: Research Question Milestone • Research teams • Use your problem area paragraph as a guide • Draft up your specific research question (1-3 sentences) • Specific question • i.e., Is X graphic interface transferable to an audio solution for the visually impaired? • Define your terms • i.e., improve, impact, engage, efficient, etc. • 10 minutes • Feasible • Interesting • Novel • Ethical • Relevant I am not sure they will have their problem area paragraphs completed at this point. Is there another activity for them? I think this will be good for next week

  2. Craft of Research Week 5: Literature Reviews and Methodologies

  3. Outline • Milestone updates from each team • Literature reviews • Methods • Upcoming • Reminders

  4. How are your milestones progressing?

  5. IMRD Structure What is this?

  6. IMRD Structure Introduction/Literature Review Methods Results Discussion/Conclusion

  7. Literature Review Section What is this?

  8. BEFORE Writing a Literature Review • Consider the following questions: • Why is this problem important? • How does the study relate to previous work in the area? • What are the primary and secondary hypotheses and objectives of the study? • How do the hypotheses and research design relate to one another? • What are the theoretical and practical implications of the study?

  9. Literature Review Key Objectives • Gain and maintain readers’ attention • Demonstrate knowledge on topic • Claim the relevance of your chosen topic • Identify an area that needs to be addressed by research (gap in knowledge) • Introduce present research

  10. Basic Organization of Literature Reviews • General Background (1 to 2 paragraphs) • Addressing Specific Area (3+ paragraphs) • Purpose of Current Research (1 to 2 paragraphs) Culminates to current research questions/aims/hypotheses

  11. Literature Review Content • Establishing a Territory • Claiming centrality • General background • Reviewing previous research • Identifying a Niche • Indicating a gap • Highlighting a problem • Raising general questions • Proposing general hypotheses • Presenting justification • Addressing the Niche • Introducing/announcing present research descriptively or purposefully • Presenting research questions/hypotheses • Clarifying definitions • Summarizing methods • Announcing principal outcomes • Stating value of present research • Outlining structure of the paper

  12. Tips for Writing Literature Reviews • Tense: Past • Length: It depends • Number of sources: Depends on length (~20 on average) • Create a Literature Table in excel to keep track of information • See template on CoR website

  13. Example of Literature Table

  14. Methodology Section What is this?

  15. Methodology Key Objectives • Describe how data were obtained • Explain how concepts and variables were used • Inform on the techniques utilized to gain the results

  16. Basic Organization of Methodology Section • Contextualizing Study Methods • Describing the Study • Analyzing the Data

  17. Methodology Section Content • Contextualizing Study Methods • Referencing previous works • Providing general information • Identifying the methodological approach • Describing the setting • Introducing the subjects/participants • Rationalizing pre-experiment decisions • Describing the Study • Acquiring/describing data • Identifying variables • Describing experimental/study procedures • Describing tools, instruments, materials/equipment • Rationalizing experiment decisions • Reporting incrementals • Analyzing the Data • Preparing the data • Describing the data analysis • Establishing credibility

  18. Tips for Writing Methodology Sections • Tense: Past • Length: It depends • Number of sources: It depends on your methods This will likely be the easiest section to write 

  19. Activity 1: Methods Structure • Research teams: choose an article assigned to you for reading • Look through the Methods section and outline the structure by headings and subheadings • Identify and discuss the content inside…does it meet your expectations? Why? • Identify the sections: Study Methods, Describing the Study, & Analyzing the Data • Write your outline on the whiteboard for comparison with the other teams • Main Header • Sub-header A • Sub-header B • Sub-header C

  20. Upcoming Milestones 1) Literature Review 2) Methods • Consult with your PI/grad student(s) on their expectations • i.e., length, content, organization, etc. • Use today’s info as a strong guide for your content and organization

  21. Upcoming Week 6 Week 7 Creating a Research Poster • Results • Discussion/Conclusion

  22. Reminders

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