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Defining Areas for Inquiry
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Defining Areas for Inquiry
Take out a sheet of paper, and in five minutes, respond to the following 6 questions.
The lit review questions guide the research you will conduct and are, therefore, one of the most important aspects of the literature review.
*Don't spend too much time answering the questions (your pen/pencil shouldn't stop!).
Now, get into groups of 2-4. Share with your group your answers to questions 1-6. Without asking additional questions, have your group members tell you which aspect of your topic seems to most information.
1. What is your topic?
2. What do you know about your topic and where did this information come from?
3. Who will/can be affected by this issue?
- Would students be affected? (Educational issue)
- Would townspeople be affected? (Civic Issue)
- Would a nation of people be affected? (National Issue)
- Would a large group of people-unidentified by specific groups-be affected? (Social Issue)
- Would the issue affect anything to do with health? (Medical Issue)
- Other? (explain)
4. What is/are the controversies surrounding this issue?
- Does everyone agree that it really is an issue? If not, then your research and literature review may involve showing why some believe it is an issue and others do not. If everyone agrees that it is an issue, you will spend little time on this area.
- If not, who does believe it to be an issue? Why?
- If not, who does not believe it to be an issue? Why?
5. How important is the issue?
- Does everyone agree on the importance of the issue? If not, then your research and literature review may involve reviewing the importance of the issue. If everyone agrees on importance, you may spend less time here than in #6.
6. What can be done about it?
- Provide your audience with the most important solutions and weigh their pros and cons.
Consider your group members' advice, as their are your audience. Your group may will help you identify a focused, narrow aspect of your topic, on which you will focus your research efforts, and, eventually, your literature review.
Any good topic is going to be TOO LARGE for you to cover everything. Instead, you need to decide where you should begin your research by looking at the information you have gathered in answering these questions.
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