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Modeling Vulnerabilities In The Research Process, Rebecca Summer
Modeling Vulnerabilities In The Research Process, Rebecca Summer
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When honors faculty share experiences from their own research, students learn that making mistakes and trying again is an important part of the learning process.
For all our emphasis on independent student inquiry in honors curricula, students get limited examples of the inevitable bumps in the road of advanced research. In our courses, we typically assign published works, which means that the research students read about is complete, polished, and deemed successful by the broader scholarly community. What students do not encounter in these models of successful research are the many uncertainties, missteps, and revisions along the way. Students are …