INLS 883 Research Colloquium

1 Credit; restricted to doctoral students

Mondays 3:30-4:45 Room 014 and by arrangement

Instructor: Gary Marchionini, gary@ils.unc.edu 919.962.8363

This colloquium aims to help novice researchers focus and articulate their research agenda. It also aims to contextualize specific research such a dissertation within the larger research enterprise. The primary approach will be to articulate dissertation research problems in verbal and written forms and identify appropriate methodology to address those problems.

Tentative Schedule of Events

Friday, January 10:  1:00pm  Organizational Meeting

Read  Press, William.  “What’s so special about science (And how much should we spend on it?).  Science, Nov. 15, 2013.  P. 817-822. (AAAS Presidential address)

Identify a research proposal context (dissertation, funding, award proposal).  Write  research problem statement that identifies a problem and its significance.   Maximum of 1 page!  Due

January 21.

Monday, January 27: research enterprise

Write a research question (no more than 2 tweets long)  Due Feb 3.  Post to Colloquium blog

Read/scan Science special issue on Communication in Science (October 4, 2013, p. 56-82).

Monday, Feb 3: Scholarly Communication; Dissertation architecture

Monday, Feb 10: Research Questions: Laura, Kaitlin, & Sara

Draft literature review outline (Due Feb 24)

Monday, Feb 17: Research Questions: Kathy, Anita,  Amanda, & Thu-Mai

Monday, Feb 24: Research Questions: Angela, John, Ashlee, & Leslie

Monday, March 3:  no meeting, I-Conference

Monday, March 10: Spring Break

Monday, March 17: I-schools research context; accreditation

Monday March 24: no meeting:  COA visit

Monday, March 31: Kilgour Lecture: Jean Camp: Beyond Usability and Economics: Translucent Security

Monday April 7:  The Research Enterprise revisited

Monday, April 14: Elevator speeches; final meeting