Guiding Questions
- What is your broad research idea, the one that you are most interested in or want to know more about-a topic that you will want to spend the next nine months working on?
- What is the time period of your topic? Is it related to an event? If so, when did it take place? If it is ongoing, state when it began.
- Who is involved? Who are the key players? How are they related to each other?
- Where? Is it geographically specific?
- What kind of background information would be helpful? What else would you need to know about this topic before your research?
- Why and how are your research ideas relevant to Global Studies? What kind of details will help support your claim?
- Is what you observed universal? If not, why not? What do they differ? What are the characteristics? Are there patterns, trends, exceptions?
- Make notes, gather information that may be of interest in a tangible way.