Leigh ZeitzSeminar: Writing a Graduate Paper

Provide focus for your research

Provides reason for your review to explore a range of answers

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Identify your topic: The ultimate effect of music-

listening while studying on grades.

Add an interrogative pronoun to the beginning to make it a question.

What is the ultimate effect of music-listening while studying on grades?

Not a Definition What does “Flipping a class” mean?

Not Yes or No Is incorporating technology into college

instruction educationally sound?Not Biased

How can using technology in college improve instruction?

Not too wordy What will be the effects of using

technology in college classes upon students’ abilities to better comprehend the actual information that the professors are sharing?

Not too wide sweeping. What are the intellectual, emotional and

logistical effects of incorporating technology into college instruction?

Topic:▪ Technology use in colleges & universities

Broad Question:▪ Is incorporating technology into college instruction educationally sound?

How about:

More specific but based upon general question:

What are the effects of incorporating technology use in colleges & universities? What are the effects on student involvement

when using Twitter in a political science class?

How does social media affect the connections between teachers and students in large introductory undergraduate courses?

Technology use in colleges and universities: Is learning through distance education

as effective as learning in a live classroom?

Do today’s faculty support the use of research using the Internet?

What methods of integrating technology into the curriculum have been demonstrated to be effective nationally?

Write down your research topic

Turn your topic into a broad research question.

Create at least 3 sub-questions that more specifically address your topic/question.

Identify at least 4 keywords/phrases in your question(s) and write them down.

Open Google Scholar and enter them individually. How many hits did it return?

Mix and Match your terms to refine your search.

Continue this process and Diigo/Don’t Print the articles that appear interesting. Include “eits2010” as one of the tags.

Search the Internet Google Scholar

Search UNI Library – Panther Prowler Education category ERIC (US DOE and EBSCO)

Ask the Reference Librarian 273-2838

Interview knowledgeable people

Talk with your professors and colleagues

Read related blogs and wikis

Follow related Twitter #hashtags

Join online group at Google, Classroom 2.0

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Technology in Colleges and Universities