{"id":1328,"date":"2015-09-09T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/?page_id=1328"},"modified":"2015-09-09T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:43:20","slug":"reading-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/assignments\/reading-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading questions for the social sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Feel free to copy and paste to help organize your own reading notes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1) What&#8217;s the scholarly background of the author, and how does this shape his\/her point of view? What type of research methods inform his\/her work?<\/p>\n<p>2) What&#8217;s the explicit (or implicit) research question of the study? What puzzle is the author seeking to answer (if any)?<\/p>\n<p>3) What&#8217;s the author&#8217;s thesis (major argument) or hypothesis (testable argument)\u00a0for the work as a whole (if any)? Is the argument\u00a0consistent from beginning to end,\u00a0including any chapters or sections?<\/p>\n<p>4) What evidence do you find most\u2014and least\u2014persuasive in support of\u00a0the author&#8217;s argument?<\/p>\n<p>5) How does the context surrounding this study shape its findings? Would the findings differ if the study had been conducted in a different location, or with other subjects, or by a different researcher?<\/p>\n<p>6) What\u00a0<em>unanswered<\/em> questions came to mind while reading this text?<\/p>\n<p>7) How does this text respond &#8212; or not &#8212; to other texts we have read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel free to copy and paste to help organize your own reading notes. 1) What&#8217;s the scholarly background of the author, and how does this shape his\/her point of view? What type of research methods inform his\/her work? 2) What&#8217;s the explicit (or implicit) research question of the study? What puzzle is the author seeking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/assignments\/reading-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading questions for the social sciences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":503,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1328\/revisions\/2212"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}