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Beyond Google: For Faculty

Resources, sample assignments, and other helpful links for first year seminar instructors

Crafting Good Research Questions

Help students create good research questions

In all fields, research is a process and depends upon asking increasingly complex questions.

Helping students to formulate (and revise) questions is a key part of the research process. Here are some ways fellow instructors have addressed developing questions in their assignments:

Advice to share with students