Where Research Begins - Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (And the World)

"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"--

About the author

Thomas S. Mullaney is professor of history at Stanford University and a Guggenheim fellow. His books include The Chinese Typewriter: A History and Your Computer is on Fire. Christopher Rea is professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. His books include Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 and The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas S. Mullaney, Thomas S. Rea Mullaney, Mullaney Thomas S., Christopher Rea, Rea Christopher
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780226801117
• ISBN: 978-0-226-80111-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; REFERENCE / General, REFERENCE / Research, Writing & editing guides, Writing and editing guides, Research methods: general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Academic & Scholarly