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 Choosing and Developing a Research Question

 Choosing and Developing a Research Question. What is research?. OED Definition Wikipedia Definition MLA Format Guidelines Office of Research Integrity The Research Whisperer. Google Image Search. So are we any closer to understanding what research is?. What is research in English?.

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 Choosing and Developing a Research Question

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  1.  Choosing and Developing a Research Question

  2. What is research? • OED Definition • Wikipedia Definition • MLA Format Guidelines • Office of Research Integrity • The Research Whisperer

  3. Google Image Search

  4. So are we any closer to understanding what research is?

  5. What is research in English? • Investigates literature and related media as the object of study to reveal something about culture, language, history, philosophy, technology/science, the human condition and/or psyche, society, and/or imaginative outsides to these same areas • Additional resource: http://www.science.lu/de/content/research-english-literary-studies-introduction http://english.ucsb.edu/about/bookshelf

  6. How to Start Research • Find a text/cultural object that is interesting and provokes questions for you • Find a critical theory that pushes you to ask more questions and want to better understand/explore it through texts/media

  7. Examples of Questions to Ask When First Starting • What do I find interesting about this text/media? • What stands out thematically? How does the text/media try to work through various thematic issues? Do certain images or patterns stand out? • How does that relate to broader theoretical questions and concerns? (i.e. does this relate to questions about gender, the environment, psychology, technology, language, etc.) • How does this relate/connect to other texts? Are they focusing in on similar issues/ideas? Do they discuss the same issues/ideas in the same or different manners? Why is this interesting?

  8. The Crystal World • Why is this science fiction novel so invested in using noir aesthetics? • Is there a relationship between noir and representations of decolonization? • Is it also gendered? • Do other sci-fi texts do the same thing? Or is it more about novels that are trying to work through issues of decolonization? • How is it also related to other “pulp” genres like adventure fiction and spy thrillers? • What is at stake for the men of these novels who attempt to be the classic noir detective? Is it a recognition of their own mortality and a society that fails them? • What does this mean for gendered binaries and the position of women?

  9. Scholarly Databases • MLA International Bibliography • Project Muse • JSTOR (though this tends to be older articles) • UCSB Library • Librarians and Research Guides!

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