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Researchers are expected to produce original findings, yet nobody
explains how original contributions are conceived in economics.
Recently there have been calls for more creativity in economic
research, yet there is no literature that explores creative
research apart from collections of biographical essays. This book
aims to address that gap, exploring the process of conceiving and
generating ideas for interesting and original research
contributions in economics (and potentially other social sciences
too). Creative Research in Economics serves both a practical and
theoretical purpose. Theoretically it presents a unique way of
thinking about the nature of problems and questions in economics
and the role of social science researchers in society. As such it
offers an interesting way to think about the philosophy of science
and methodology in economics, and how new ideas emerge in the
discipline. Practically it develops techniques for finding
interesting and original research contributions (as opposed to
conventional data-gathering research). Whether you are a graduate
student looking for that first interesting question, a novice
researcher in search of fresh avenues for research after your PhD,
or a seasoned academic looking to teach the philosophy and
methodology of economics in more interesting ways, you will find
this book of great use.
Integrating insights from learning science with practical
guidelines and stepwise approaches, Teaching Complex Ideas helps
educators masterfully translate their expertise into
easy-to-understand, interesting, and memorable instruction.
Covering areas such as identifying the critical ideas within a
complex topic, designing clear explanations, and making lectures
useful and engaging, this resource brings together subjects and
skills never before adequately addressed in a single book. Using
real world examples and full of practical tips, this book guides
college instructors to improve their understanding of their
subjects, select the most valuable ideas to teach, and integrate
those concepts with other aspects of teaching such as presentation
design, technology, and assessment of understanding. This practical
book helps professors at any stage in their career convert even the
most complex ideas into great teaching.
Integrating insights from learning science with practical
guidelines and stepwise approaches, Teaching Complex Ideas helps
educators masterfully translate their expertise into
easy-to-understand, interesting, and memorable instruction.
Covering areas such as identifying the critical ideas within a
complex topic, designing clear explanations, and making lectures
useful and engaging, this resource brings together subjects and
skills never before adequately addressed in a single book. Using
real world examples and full of practical tips, this book guides
college instructors to improve their understanding of their
subjects, select the most valuable ideas to teach, and integrate
those concepts with other aspects of teaching such as presentation
design, technology, and assessment of understanding. This practical
book helps professors at any stage in their career convert even the
most complex ideas into great teaching.
Research is difficult. Even though students are trained in the
basic research methodology skills, when confronted with research
writing, it feels to them as if they enter a bizarre world, with
its own language and conventions, where it is hard to get things
right. This book translates the apparent complexities of research
writing into everyday ideas, language and skills, and will enable
novice researchers to start overcoming the major stumbling blocks
immediately. This book focuses only on the greatest challenges in
research writing, specifically those that supervisors find most
difficult to explain to novice researchers. These challenges
include both basic and more complex skills, such as: finding
original research contributions; establishing one's voice while
drawing on other authors; turning a vague idea into a feasible
research question; generating literature reviews that are original
in themselves; and avoiding list-like writing when discussing the
research methodology. Wentzel shows that it is easier to overcome
these challenges, not with lists of prescriptions that are
difficult to remember while writing, but rather by cultivating an
argumentative mindset. Not only is such a mindset much easier to
maintain, but it offers a central point around which one can
organise any difficult writing task. The book shows how to use the
argumentative mindset to approach every important writing
challenge. It translates all the necessary skills into jargon-free
language using a variety of visuals and simple step-by-step
procedures that will enable any person to read the book quickly and
start writing immediately. The book is accompanied by a website
containing an instructor's manual with guidance on the teaching and
assessment of research writing, as well as lecture slides.
Researchers are expected to produce original findings, yet nobody
explains how original contributions are conceived in economics.
Recently there have been calls for more creativity in economic
research, yet there is no literature that explores creative
research apart from collections of biographical essays. This book
aims to address that gap, exploring the process of conceiving and
generating ideas for interesting and original research
contributions in economics (and potentially other social sciences
too). Creative Research in Economics serves both a practical and
theoretical purpose. Theoretically it presents a unique way of
thinking about the nature of problems and questions in economics
and the role of social science researchers in society. As such it
offers an interesting way to think about the philosophy of science
and methodology in economics, and how new ideas emerge in the
discipline. Practically it develops techniques for finding
interesting and original research contributions (as opposed to
conventional data-gathering research). Whether you are a graduate
student looking for that first interesting question, a novice
researcher in search of fresh avenues for research after your PhD,
or a seasoned academic looking to teach the philosophy and
methodology of economics in more interesting ways, you will find
this book of great use.
Research is difficult. Even though students are trained in the
basic research methodology skills, when confronted with research
writing, it feels to them as if they enter a bizarre world, with
its own language and conventions, where it is hard to get things
right. This book translates the apparent complexities of research
writing into everyday ideas, language and skills, and will enable
novice researchers to start overcoming the major stumbling blocks
immediately. This book focuses only on the greatest challenges in
research writing, specifically those that supervisors find most
difficult to explain to novice researchers. These challenges
include both basic and more complex skills, such as: finding
original research contributions; establishing one's voice while
drawing on other authors; turning a vague idea into a feasible
research question; generating literature reviews that are original
in themselves; and avoiding list-like writing when discussing the
research methodology. Wentzel shows that it is easier to overcome
these challenges, not with lists of prescriptions that are
difficult to remember while writing, but rather by cultivating an
argumentative mindset. Not only is such a mindset much easier to
maintain, but it offers a central point around which one can
organise any difficult writing task. The book shows how to use the
argumentative mindset to approach every important writing
challenge. It translates all the necessary skills into jargon-free
language using a variety of visuals and simple step-by-step
procedures that will enable any person to read the book quickly and
start writing immediately. The book is accompanied by a website
containing an instructor's manual with guidance on the teaching and
assessment of research writing, as well as lecture slides.
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