Students will be able to:

1. Describe appropriate approaches to finding research problems. (advisor, areas of controversy, faculty and grad. students, reviews, personal interest)
2. Describe the five criteria for choosing a problem (workability, critical mass, interest, theoretical value, practical value)
3. Identify differences between, and examples of, inductive and deductive kinds of reasoning (specific to general versus general to specific)
4. Describe strategies for searching the literature (review papers, use advisor, computer searches, etc.)
5. Distinguish essential information when taking notes from literature. (problem, subjects, instruments/tests, testing procedures, variables, treatments, design and analysis, findings, questions, citations and references)
6. Describe how to take notes using index cards and computers.
7. Describe the process of writing using the computer. (jigsaw analogy, outlining, writing techniques, and how to review and edit)
   

(Revised 1/6/98)