Critical Thinking and Source Material Researching and Writing in Different Disciplines.

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Critical Thinking and Source Material Researching and Writing in Different Disciplines

Selecting a topic: It should interest you It should meet course requirements It should be specific enough that you can complete a solid research paper and presentation on the topic within a semester Don’t worry if the topic seems too controversial or too popular, the research will show you where the best academic debate is on the topic You may find yourself interested in a topic with two different possible focuses (or foci), use the debate in the literature to guide you

Developing the “research question” Consider writing on educational equipment General topic of “Whiteboards” or “Smartboards” can be subdivided into many different specific questions Ideally, having a research question will help you to narrow down your topic. It is alright if the question changes Your “hypothesis” should be tentative

Using Tools from Different Disciplines and finding sources from different disciplines Consider how the paper on volunteer motivation included research from: – Sociology – Psychology, Organizational Psychology – Communication – Philosophy/Ethics – Political Science » It is good to include interdisciplinary research methods, qualitative text-analysis and quantitative numbers and statistics

Finding Sources Begin with a broad search and see what is out there Focus in on the most useful, most relevant See who is cited at the end of those sources (see who each author is in debate with, to whom each article is responding) What is the landscape of different views and schools of thought What are the frameworks The concept of “gateways” is what we mean by specific databases like Galileo, Academic Search Complete, Jstor, Ulrichs Online texts (ie., websites) are a good area to start with, but remember you should be using peer reviewed works

Opening questions: What are the objects of study – Humanities studies products, things, artifacts, texts, works of art, etc. – Document analysis – Literature research (this is one of the main reasons to begin with a literature review)

What will you find within that literature search? Creative responses to problems and case studies Concepts and theories that are described and compared with each other Criticism of literature that was published previously, criticism of works of art

In Humanities and Arts, research can mean a combination of: Information gathering, questioning and documenting Critique, analysis, explanation Conceptual work, theorizing the work by relating it to a theory proposed by someone else Interpreting works Personal narrative, personal argument, personal point of view

You might start by: Doing a quick Google search to see what people are already saying Be aware that much of what you find in this kind of search is not peer-reviewed, and therefore it should not be used in a college level paper

Sample 1: Topic: How do students of design use museum collections to inspire their own work? – Consider looking at an academic journal on arts education – Interviewing art students – Interviewing museum curators, community liaisons, docents – Personal narratives of design professionals about their own past experiences in museums

Sample 2: Topic: Crime Explore causes for changes in crime rates over time Consider looking at academic journals in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science – School support, meals plans – Abortion/Roe v. Wade – Statistics over time compared with theories and explanations

Sample 3: Topic: Non-profit work Academic Journals in Sociology and Social Work Career Services Professionals – Interviews with people who are currently working in non-profit contexts – Interviews with professional social workers for comparison – Challenges of fund raising in difficult economic times – Challenges of perception, political and social connotations of working in human services

Sample 4: Topic: Alternative/Holistic Medicine Choice 1: Structure of Experiments, are alternative treatments studied through proper experiment structures and protocols Choice 2: Political Issue, government funding for alternative therapies and insurance company decisions about funding for patients who choose alternative therapies

Sample 5: Topic: Kawasaki Syndrome and/or Medical Controversies Check the literature to see what the major debates are: – Kawasaki comparative research in various populations and geographic regions (Japan, Jordan, Texas, Ontario) – Coronary Artery Disease and aneurysms linked to Kawasaki – Genealogy and Kawasaki, parent studies

Sample 6 Public Education – Assessment Controversies, AYP, “Teaching to the Test” – Compared with Charter Schools and/or Magnet Schools – Political Support and Funding of Public Education Recent controversy about Philadelphia Schools in the news

Sample 7 Religious Studies and Comedy? Google search for “theology and Dante's inferno” Here’s what you might see:

Dantes-Inferno.html Dantes-Inferno.html Not peer reviewed, not academic:

Youtube: Academic Lectures Dante Public Lecture Series 2012, Department of Italian, University College Cork, Ireland. The final lecture in this annual series was given by Dr Matthew Treherne of the University of Leeds / Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, GB. The topic of Matthew's lecture was "Dante's Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society"

Popular Press material which may be used if it is well researched om/news/articles/ SB

Your best source material will always be peer-reviewed articles through: Galileo Academic Search Complete JStor

Use “Databases” A-Z for Academic Search Complete and Jstor under A and J Ulrichs under U when you aren’t sure if a source is peer- reviewed