Over the course of the summer, we have been looking at how to perform high quality, academic research in all of the major disciplines IU East teaches. While we started with general techniques usable in any research, that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Each area of study has its own quirks and special types… Read more »
Month: June 2014
Political Science Questions
This summer, we’ve been exploring what goes into good, academic research. And although there are plenty of great basic skills and techniques usable for any discipline – which we covered in the first week – each subject taught at IU East has its own unique character and needs. Here, we’ll look at the sources for… Read more »
English Questions
If you’ve been following this blog, you know we’ve been examining how to do in-depth research in each of the major academic disciplines IU East offers. There’s a lot that is the same for any type of scholarly research, and we started off looking at those general techniques. But every field of study has its… Read more »
Law and Criminal Justice Questions
For the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at how to get the most out of scholarly resources for each discipline taught at IU East, and this week we’ll look at criminal justice. Many of these methods will build off of the general techniques we explored earlier, but some are unique to this field. Like… Read more »
Education Questions
These last few weeks, we’ve been exploring where and how to do deep, scholarly research in the various disciplines, and this week we will look at education. Building off the general techniques we explored earlier, there are a lot of great sources for education research, and tools that meet the unique needs of teachers-to-be. For… Read more »