HOW TO BEGIN YOUR RESEARCH PROCESS
WHAT TO CONSIDER AS YOU BEGIN
- What topic do you want to study?
- What do scholars in Native Studies already know about your topic? Do the scholars who have addressed your topic primarily come from a particular discipline, or from a mix of disciplines, and what are they?
- Why do we need to know more, and how would your research build on, modify, or correct errors in previous work n your topic? What role will an interdisciplinary approach play in advancing scholarship on your topic?
- What exactly would you do? Conduct participant observations? Conduct in-depth personal interviews? Collect a survey? Analyze primary source material from archives? Analyze secondary sources? What approximate timetable would you use? For empirical research, who would be your subjects? How would you analyze and interpret your data? Is your purpose to explore or to argue?
RESEARCH TOPICS
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