Project 1: Entering the Conversation

For Project 1, it is time to take our discussions of inquiry and argument a step further. You will enter a variety of academic conversations in a broader way–by investigating an issue and finding something new to add to that particular conversation in hopes that someone other than yourself will benefit from this information. In other words, it is time to add thorough secondary research and empirical primary research to the process. Our aim is to arrive at a question worth exploring, conduct secondary and empirical primary research, evaluate our results, and turn them into an argument worth making while using our secondary and primary research results as evidence to support us.