Date Created
10-1-2010
Abstract
Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question. The timing of the research question is an important issue because it has implications for the structuring of research assignments and library instruction, as well as having an impact on the students who get differing messages.
Publication Title
portal: Libraries and the Academy
Document Type
Article
Volume
10
Issue
4
First Page
437
Last Page
449
DOI
doi:10.1353/pla.2010.0009
Rights Statement
This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Extent
22 pages
Digital Origin
Born digital
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Recommended Citation
Nutefall, Jennifer and Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell, "The Timing of the Research Question: First-Year Writing Faculty and Instruction Librarians‘ Differing Perspectives" (2010). University Libraries Faculty Publications. 116.
https://digscholarship.unco.edu/libfacpub/116
