When Research Isn’t Research: It’s not Just Semantics
(Orighinally posted December 2, 2018) My work with a really bright junior at a top college that many CPE studentss would cut off their right arms to get into occasioned a recent epiphany: The word research means two very different things through high school and in popular culture on the one hand and though higher education and in scholarly discourse on the other. Same word, but two things that are more dissimilar than similar. As early as grade school and as generally used outside of academia, research means to look into, find out, investigate, learn. I’m researching the Star Is Born […]
