Article
The Timing of the Research Question: First-Year Writing Faculty and Instruction Librarians‘ Differing Perspectives
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Disciplines
Abstract
Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question. The timing of the research question is an important issue because it has implications for the structuring of research assignments and library instruction, as well as having an impact on the students who get differing messages.
Citation Information
Nutefall, J. E., & Ryder, P. M. (2010, October). The timing of the research question: First-year writing faculty and instruction librarians‘ differing perspectives [Electronic version]. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 10(4), 437-449. doi:10.1353/pla.2010.0009
This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by The Johns Hopkins University Press and can be found at: doi:10.1353/pla.2010.0009