Issue 10: What Are Research Methods, by Kate Pantelides, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, and Derek Mueller.
Research Methods allow you to read a piece of text, and then be able to contribute or answer questions about it in any type of critical discussion or debate. How we use what we find in research is called rhetorical delivery. Secondary sources, witch are findings that you gather from other research to make your own conclusions. Primary sources are when you gather information from your own local context. The data you gather from this can be quantitative, witch is numerical, or qualitative, witch is descriptive. Research Methodologies are the ways that you think about presenting your research project. Your findings, questions, conclusion, method, and data are all part of this. When creating your methodology it is important to keep in mind research is subjective. One way to make you research tangible is to make a research proposal. This allows you to present your findings to an audience.
Since I’m currently in college this issue was extremely relevant. I can imagine that I will need to analyze research here in the coming years for my other classes. I will have to read professors research to build my own conclusions. Then I will have to present them in a physical way. This would be the methodology and Research proposal this issue was discussing. I feel like this issue will retain its relevancy the most.
Duke Maddox 