Start a Research Journal — Transcript

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1. 0:00Forget personal curriculums, you need to
2. 0:01start a research journal and here are
3. 0:03five prompts to get you started. Every
4. 0:05morning you're going to start with a
5. 0:06free write. Three to five minutes on
6. 0:07your research and I want you to start
7. 0:09with what is exciting me today? What do
8. 0:11I wish to explore? What am I looking
9. 0:13forward to? Number two is actually
10. 0:15creating a mind map. Create bubbles,
11. 0:18lines, make connections in order to get
12. 0:20all of your messy ideas out onto the
13. 0:22page. Number three, a structured reading
14. 0:25report. This is going to go over the
15. 0:27main argument, supporting argument,
16. 0:29evidence, literature review and your own
17. 0:32ideas when reading an article or book.
18. 0:34The fourth is timelines. You can go
19. 0:37ahead and write out the different days
20. 0:39that events occurred in a book. You can
21. 0:41also write out timelines as they relate
22. 0:42to a historical subject. And the fifth
23. 0:45is a character study. Whether you're
24. 0:47studying non-fiction or fiction, I want
25. 0:49you to write out all of the subjects
26. 0:51that you encounter, whether that's in a
27. 0:52book or in an archival record and I want
28. 0:54you to describe them.
29. 0:56Talk about their motivations, what it is
30. 0:58it that you observe about them and any
31. 1:00quotes that you find interesting.
32. 1:02There are so many things that you can do
33. 1:03with a research journal and this is just
34. 1:05the start. This is my PhD dissertation
35. 1:08diary from Paper Republic. This is where
36. 1:10I write down all of my big, messy ideas.
37. 1:13I outline my chapters, I outline my
38. 1:15entire dissertation. Everything related
39. 1:17to my PhD lives in this little physical
40. 1:19archive. Leave the comment Paper
41. 1:21Republic if you want to go ahead and
42. 1:22check out these beautiful handcrafted
43. 1:24leather notebooks from Paper Republic
44. 1:26and leave me a note about how you are
45. 1:28going to use your research journal next.