Learning to ask questions in a reasonable way. Changing you from a consumer of knowledge to a producer of researcher.
The Why of Research from Brian Thomas
- Your discipline is not your topic
- You should do research to find out whether or not you have chosen the right area of focus
- You can interact with faculty in a new way: everyone is here because of fantastic scholarship; you are mining a completely novel area of their expertise
- Research is the act of taming unruly problems