A Step Back to Chapter 3

Chapter three is all about research questions and proposals. It goes into a lot of helpful tips on creating research questions and then how to refine them to better focus your topic. It also talks about the much less common act of broadening your questions if you seem to have narrowed in too far. All of this was pretty much standard review for me until we got to the proposal part. This was a new topic for me and I do give this chapter a lot of credit for teaching about how to get around to doing that properly. I really never understood the purpose for them before this if you weren’t trying to get funding for the project, but they can be a very important organizational tool as well. One major complaint I have about this chapter is it breaks things down to much sometimes. When it was talking about how to do your proposal I want from “blah, whom would need that” to “Ok now I get this, I can see how this could be useful” then the book continued to drag on until I hit “Oh god this is over whelming!” It should have stopped at “Ok now I get this”.