Graduate school is not for the faint of heart… Prior to graduate school, I did not fully understand the ups and downs of independently executing a research project. I expected graduate school to be an extension of my undergrad experience where I would be guided and gradually reach success.
Research at the graduate level is all about quality and engagement. Grad students typically enter their programs with a partial awareness of what research in their field looks like — yet are expected to leave prepared to do in-depth tasks like conduct original research, write about research for advanced audiences, or translate research into a new professional practice.
In this module, we examine what it means to become engaged with research as a graduate student, including the relationship between engagement and foundational tasks like:
- Conducting a literature review
- Using a variety of platforms to find highly-cited scholarly articles
- Efficiently scanning scholarly articles for key information
- Knowing how to use a citation to look up a scholarly work from a bibliography
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