Where Research Begins : Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)

Thomas S. Mullaney

ISBN 10: 022680111X / ISBN 13: 9780226801117

Published by The University Of Chicago Press Apr 2022, 2022

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Neuware - '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'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where Research Begins : Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
• Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press Apr 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022680111X
• ISBN 13: 9780226801117
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 223W x 146H x 19D millimeters 223 millimeters width by 146 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 390 grams

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Synopsis

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters.

The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?

This book will help you start your new research project the right way for you with a series of simple yet ingenious exercises. Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas.

Read this book if you (or your students):

• have difficulty choosing a research topic
• know your topic, but are unsure how to turn it into a research project
• feel intimidated by or unqualified to do research
• worry that you’re asking the wrong questions about your research topic
• have plenty of good ideas, but aren’t sure which one to commit to
• feel like your research topic was imposed by someone else
• want to learn new ways to think about how to do research.

Under the expert guidance of award-winning researchers Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, you will find yourself on the path to a compelling and meaningful research project, one that matters to you—and the world.

About the Authors

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.