Where Research Begins · Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) by Mullaney, Thomas S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Self-Centered Research: A Manifesto Centered Research Is the Best Research How to Use This Book Introversion, First. Extroversion, Second.

try this now: Write Here, Right Now

part 1: Become a Self-Centered Researcher

chapter 1: Questions A Topic Is Not a Question

try this now: Search Yourself try this now: Let Boredom Be Your Guide try this now: Go Small or Go Home sounding board: Start Building Your Research Network

You Have Questions chapter 2: What’s Your Problem? Don’t Jump to a Question (or You’ll Miss Your Problem) Stress-Testing Your Questions

You Have a Problem (in a Good Way) chapter 3: Designing a Project That Works Primary Sources and How to Use Them (or, Fifty Ways to Read a Cereal Box)

Connecting the Dots: Getting from Sources to Arguments Sources Cannot Defend Themselves

Taking Stock of Your Research Resources

try this now: Decision Matrix sounding board: Is Your Decision Matrix Complete?

Two Types of Plan B

Scenario 1: Same Problem, Different Case Scenario 2: Same Topic, Different Project

Setting Up Shop

You Have the Beginnings of a Project

part 2: Get Over Yourself

chapter 4: How to Find Your Problem Collective Identify Researchers Who Share Your Problem

try this now: Change One Variable try this now: Before and After try this now: Map Out Your Collective (Secondary Source Search)

Rewriting for Your Collective

Welcome to Your Collective chapter 5: How to Navigate Your Field Find the Problems within Your Field Read Your Field for Their Problems: Reimagining the “Literature Review”

Welcome to Your Field chapter 6: How to Begin Don’t Worry. It’s All Writing.

try this now: Create “Draft 0”

See What You Mean: Writing Draft 1

try this now: Move from 0 to 1

Perfection Is Boring

sounding board: Talk to Yourself

Welcome to Self-Centered Research What’s Next in Your Research Journey?

try this now: Find a New Problem and Start a New Project try this now: Help Someone Else

Acknowledgments Further Reading Index