Designing a research project
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Debra Russell
Abstract
Beginning a research project can be both daunting and exciting for all researchers, whether experienced or novice. This chapter highlights the crucial stage of creating a research project from a well-developed research question and appropriate methodology that best addresses the question. This beginning stage has a significant impact on the overall study, including the soundness of the results. This chapter explores strategies for conceiving of, and designing, a research project that can both be achievable and contribute to scholarship. This chapter draws on examples from two of the author’s own studies of interpreting in educational and legal settings, to more closely examine the many considerations required for an effective research project.
Abstract
Beginning a research project can be both daunting and exciting for all researchers, whether experienced or novice. This chapter highlights the crucial stage of creating a research project from a well-developed research question and appropriate methodology that best addresses the question. This beginning stage has a significant impact on the overall study, including the soundness of the results. This chapter explores strategies for conceiving of, and designing, a research project that can both be achievable and contribute to scholarship. This chapter draws on examples from two of the author’s own studies of interpreting in educational and legal settings, to more closely examine the many considerations required for an effective research project.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Opening quote xi
- Introduction 1
- Researching interpreting 5
- Designing a research project 27
- Identifying and interpreting scientific phenomena 47
- The first three years of a three-year grant 59
- Methodology in interpreting studies 85
- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise? 121
- “Mark my words” 153
- Developing and transmitting a shared interpreting research ethos 177
- Profession in pentimento 199
- Through a historical lens 225
- Bimodal bilingual interpreting in the U.S. healthcare system 241
- Index 261
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Opening quote xi
- Introduction 1
- Researching interpreting 5
- Designing a research project 27
- Identifying and interpreting scientific phenomena 47
- The first three years of a three-year grant 59
- Methodology in interpreting studies 85
- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise? 121
- “Mark my words” 153
- Developing and transmitting a shared interpreting research ethos 177
- Profession in pentimento 199
- Through a historical lens 225
- Bimodal bilingual interpreting in the U.S. healthcare system 241
- Index 261
