The Final Lecture - Ilesha

This Weeks Lecture was entitled Research and Methodology : Inscription as a Liberating Practice. The lecture was given by Dr. Dana Williams and she was explaining to us how the lectures were given to us relate to our research and how we were to construct our project.

Honestly I never knew how these lectures would relate to our research so I never found the point of sitting in class and blogging other than getting a grade. Dr. Williams cleared that up for me.

Not to my knowledge and the other students as well, we were actually part of a research project that was being conducted by the COAS department. The primary objectives were for us to identify the principal components of research and to relate these components to our group projects. The related objectives were to show the relation of the previous lecture to our group projects and to review the previous weeks' lectures to reaffirm this relationship. They were trying to find an effective way of giving us information and for us to be able to retain this information for future knowledge .

Dr. Williams reminded us of our research topic which was In what ways is knowledge generated by various fields of study used to develop solutions to human social problems and challenges? Then she went on to explain to us the basic components of research which are as follows:
1. Statement of The Problem or Challenge
- Consider the purpose
 Consider reasonable questions


2. What is the Current State of Your Research
- What has already been said
- What is new
-What information is needed to complete the research


3. Methodology (how we approach our research)
- Conceptualize a research design
- Determine a method of collecting data
- Disciplinary approach


4. Frame Work
- How will we structure our projects
- How will we display our data


5. Development of our thesis


6. Conclusion


I can see that just like in English, we have to develop a thesis for our project.
Then Dr. Williams explained their research to us which gave us an example of what we should do for our projects. These six components will definitely give my group as well as myself an outline to follow when we conduct our research to find out how our majors will help solve problems in the future.