Session 7: Small-group work

Overall goal: develop an initial set of research questions that could be the basis for an article or blog post.

Individually:

• Briefly describe the topic or research area you’re investigating
• Write down 2-3 initial research questions; be as specific as you can
• If you’re not using your own corpus, identify which of the available corpora you will use

Within the group:

• Share your research questions and think about how to make them more actionable and precise
• Brainstorm some queries that each group member might use to get at their research question(s)
• Test the queries and discuss the results

Broader issues to consider:

• Think about how research questions emerge and evolve in the context of these methods, and how to incorporate these methods in a research argument
• Explain what’s going on as your inquiry proceeds: what guided your exploration? How would you characterize your process (play, experimentation, testing, etc.)?
• Think about how others might respond to or evaluate your results
• Think about how you might test the results you get and assess/explain their reliability, validity, and persuasiveness
• Think about how this work might engage with existing scholarship or connect with any research that you’re interested in

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