scholarly journals BREAKING THE BARRIERS OF RESEARCH WRITING: RETHINKING PEDAGOGY FOR ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Rosales ◽  
Cecilia Moloney ◽  
Cecile Badenhorst ◽  
Jennifer Dyer ◽  
Morgan Murray
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Student Perspectives ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Writer’S Block

A key attribute for success in graduate studies is the ability to conduct research and to communicate research effectively. However, many researchers in engineering do not identify as writers, regarding research writing as the end product of a static template. Novice and experienced researchers alike encounter problems common to all writers such as writer’s block and procrastination, and struggle for clarity of thought and brevity of message. Conventional, skills-based support for research writing exists at many universities, but an interdisciplinary research team at Memorial University has been investigating more integrative and innovative ways to break down barriers to thinking and writing clearly about research, particularly for engineering graduate students. Using the lens of academic literacies, this paper presents “Thinking Creatively about Research,” a research project that developed and piloted a multi-day, co-curricular workshop for engineering graduate students at Memorial University. Preliminary findings indicate that the workshop pedagogy can transform student perspectives of research and writing.

scholarly journals How to choose a fruitful research project: advice from graduate students

SURG Journal ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Lee-Anne Huber ◽  
Alexandra Guselle
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Associate Dean ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fruitful Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Phd Program

Selecting a research topic is an integral part of graduate studies. According to Skip Brass, Associate Dean and Director of the MD-PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, you need to “pick a problem that interests you. You will be living with it for a long time. Make sure it is something you will want to wrestle with even when the going gets rough. It has to make you want to get up early, work late, come in on the weekend, and think about it in the shower.” This paper aims to make the process of choosing and evaluating a research topic a little easier through providing some helpful steps in formulating a successful project.

scholarly journals Graduate Research Writing: A Pedagogy of Possibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecile Badenhorst ◽  
Cecilia Moloney ◽  
Janna Rosales ◽  
Jennifer Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Writing Intervention ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Graduate Research

Graduates often find conceptualizing and writing long research projects an arduous alienating process. This paper1 describes a research writing intervention conducted at Memorial University in Newfoundland with two groups of graduate students (Engineering and Arts). One small part of the workshop was devoted to creative "sentence activities." Our argument is that these creative activities contributed to re-connecting students to themselves as researchers/writers and to others in the group. The activities engaged students in language literally, metaphorically, and performatively.

scholarly journals Alberta’s new health research paradigms: Are graduate students being prepared for interdisciplinary team research?

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Katherine Duthie ◽  
Meghan Riddell ◽  
Carol Weller ◽  
Lavinia I Coltan ◽  
Karen Benzies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Team Research

Strategic prioritization of research agendas to address health problems with a large social and economic burden has increased the demand for interdisciplinary research. Universities have addressed the need for interdisciplinary research in their strategic documents. However, research training to equip graduates for careers in interdisciplinary research teams has not kept pace. We offer recommendations to graduate students, universities, health services organizations, and health research funders designed to increase the capacity for interdisciplinary research team training, and provide an example of an existing training program.

Graduate Student Professional Development in Applied Sociology Courses through Group Research Projects

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Korsching ◽  
Gregory Peter
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Applied Sociology ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Professional Meeting

Designing stimulating and scholarly course projects for graduate students in an applied sociology course is a challenge. We discuss the development and continued refinement a type of course project that involves all students in the course in a collaborative research project and helps them understand the process of conducting and reporting applied research. Objectives of the project for the students are: (1) professionalization and socialization into the discipline; (2) experience in defining, developing, executing, and delivering a real-world research project; (3) experience in working on a research team and working with other disciplines; (4) development of critical thinking and the sociological imagination in conceptualizing the project; and (5) output of a scholarly product for the students' vita. The students define the research problem, identify subjects, develop research instruments, collect data, analyze the data, and write a paper potentially resulting in a professional meeting presentation and publication in an academic journal.

Collaboration, Power, Participation and Control on a Large Scale Research Team: Multiple Perspectives from the Oxford House Research Project

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Olson ◽  
Leonard Jason ◽  
Joseph R. Ferrari ◽  
Leon Venable ◽  
Bertel F. Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Oxford House ◽  
And Control

Methodological Proposal Focused on the Intangible Resources Diagnosis of Intellectual Capital for Tourism Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 739-748
Author(s):  
Quadrini Fabiana Andrea ◽  
◽  
Abraham Cynthia Anahi
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Intangible Resources

The purpose of this paper is to develop and deepen one of the research lines that since 2010 the research team has been working on. It is related to one of the objectives set forth in the schedule of the research project “Management of the intellectual capital and innovation for tourism destination: a way to boost sector competitiveness”, which is being developed. The aim is to design and present a method that let make a diagnosis of intangible resources of intellectual capital for tourism destination and show its positive relation with innovative activity.

Brief of Amicus Curiae Interdisciplinary Research Team on Programmer Creativity Addressing Expressions and Ideas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph D. Clifford ◽  
Firas Khatib ◽  
Trina Kershaw ◽  
Kavitha Chandra ◽  
Jay McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Amicus Curiae

scholarly journals The doctoral dissertation and scholarly communication: Adapting to changing publication practices among graduate students

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxanne Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Copyright Transfer ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Future Publication ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

When I first began working with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), the conversation in libraries appeared to revolve around open access and publication embargoes. It seemed to me that the primary task for scholarly communication librarians in this area was to broaden access to graduate research while protecting future publication opportunities for individual authors. As graduate students begin to publish earlier in their careers, the relationship between the doctoral dissertation and scholarly publishing is evolving. Many students now include their own previously published work in a dissertation, requiring instruction in publication contracts and copyright transfer agreements at the point of submission to the graduate school.

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