Exploration 2: Crafting a Research Question

Assignment by Molly Kirby, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Overview

In this assignment, students begin the process of cultivating a research question that they’ll work with over the course of the semester in CODE123: Research and Systems Thinking. This assignment has two key objectives: to introduce students to the FINER criteria for research questions, and to help them understand how different disciplinary perspectives might inform one another.

Assignment Sheet

Author

  • Dr. Meg Smith is a digital humanist and medieval historian. At SIUE, she serves as Interim Director of the IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Technical Director for the CODES program.