Research Perspectives Focusing on Successful Research Projects

Catalog description

This Module comprises five conversations about research. The Module’s central premise, simply stated, is that truly influential research focuses on a puzzle a researcher wants to solve as elegantly and completely as possible. The module’s goals include developing a capacity to identify the specific puzzle a researcher has set out to solve, to judge whether the proposed solution is satisfactory or not, whether the puzzle can or should lead to additional research, and whether the research represents a significant methodological advancement.