CS6023 Research Methods--
Chapter 2 -- Reading
Richard Halstead-Nussloch
25 January 1999 and 6 July 1999
Agenda
Chapter 2 -- Reading & Writing about it
Reading--Frank Smith
Internal models
Reading log
Writing about what you read
Plagiarism
Key actions
Scientific Thinking
Q & A
Group Activity--What is Research?
Divide up into groups of 3 or 4
Try to mix by nation of origin
Answer and discuss questions:
What are my goals for this course?
What is research?
What is research in computer science?
What is research in your prior discipline?
What is a research method?
What is rhetoric?
Group Activity: Discussion
What are my goals for this course?
What is research?
What is research in computer science?
What is research in your current discipline?
What is a research method?
What is rhetoric?
Chapter 2--Reading and Writing about What You Read
Reading--Frank Smith 1978--Understanding Reading
Internal models
Reading log
Writing about what you read
Plagiarism
Key Actions
Scientific thinking
Reading--Frank Smith’s 1978 Understanding Reading
Internal model (in head) is constructed based on what is read
External information sources--come into the head through a bottleneck
Internal model is used for prediction
Internal model--represents what the researcher knows about the scientific body of knowledge
How to build a good internal model
Establish an information goal
Read
Think about what you read
How does it fit with the information goal?
How does it fit into categories of information?
Write about what you read
Reading log
Critique and comparison
Reading Log
How many have started one?
Use a questionnaire template (pg. 33)
Implement in a loose-leaf notebook, card catalog, or data base
Organize into categories (information goals help here)
Keep using it
Writing about What You Read
Key to developing an external information model
Requirements
Directed at information goal(s)
Uses acceptable framework for scientific information model
Written in acceptable protocols of the scientific community
Plagiarism
Do cite your sources--don’t plagiarize
Stay out of trouble
More authoritative
Bibliography--Sources read as background--listed in the Bibliography list (end of paper)
References--Sources included for ideas & quotes--
Author list and designator in text
Designator and reference citation in the References list (end of paper)
Key Actions
Read constantly about what you research
Write about what you read (reading log)
Write about what you research (reports)
Introductions and prior research sections
Results, findings, and discussion sections
Bibliography and reference sections
Cite your sources of ideas and quotes in your writing
Scientific Thinking and this Chapter
A belief or idea--information goal
Research data
Research findings through reading
Research information
Scientific knowledge
Summary
Chapter 2 -- Reading & Writing about it
Reading--Frank Smith
Internal models
Reading log
Writing about what you read
Plagiarism
Key actions
Scientific Thinking
Q & A