chapter 3 blog

Chapter three is chalk full of information on how to develop a research question and proposal. While the amount of content is vast and plentiful, it still follows the same set up as chapter 1, 2, and 4. That being that some of the content is good but most of it is just a review of things I already know how to do.  Focusing on the content the review was a helpful yet annoying thing to have, the first few pages are just going over the start of a research question (who, what, when , where, why etc.) yet it then gives you a table full of information that better specifies it. The table is set up with a list of what you look for in a research question (information, history, assumption etc.) and then goes into how to format each question with questions that are already done for you. For a better idea of what I am talking about refer to pages 44-45 of the text book. After this the book goes into how you format a research proposal, this section I found was the most helpful part of the chapter. It starts of by explaining what a research proposal is, then goes into detail on how to make one. Within the pages you’ll find out that to make a proper research proposal you’ll need to do a lot of explaining and quoting. The point of a research proposal is to let whoever is grading you to better understand exactly how we will go about collecting the information we put together to make our paper. It then leads to a bibliography of sorts where we have to annotate using MLA, APA or other formats of citing sources.  Chapter 3 was a good review, but like the other chapters so far it offered something new for us to learn.