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The Researcher
The Research
Research Mission
Academic Disciplines
Hodgepodge
100
Persons who are hired as researchers who must have an advanced degree in their field.
Who are Faculty?
100
A primary aspect of being a researcher. The sharing of knowledge or results of scholarly studies.
What is publishing?
100
A university that has a research mission.
What is a research university?
100
The academic disciplines that study how scientific knowledge can be applied to practical uses for society. Subject areas include civil, electrical, mechanical, computer, and chemical.
What are the engineering sciences?
100
The process of discovering and creating new knowledge - that which has no been known before.
What is research?
200
Sets of prescribed processes that researchers can use to best address the topic they are exploring.
What is research methods?
200
A brief summary of the study and the primary findings.
What is an abstract?
200
An independent institution of higher learning offering a course of general studies leading to a bachelor's degree.
What is a college?
200
The academic disciplines that study the physical world, its inhabitants, and the symbolic relationships within. Subject areas include biology, ecology, physics, geology, chemistry, and environmental studies.
What are physical and biological sciences?
200
The dissemination of known knowledge.
What is teaching?
300
A group of faculty members who are experts in their subfields and who offer a set of courses that satisfy a bachelor's degree and often a master's or doctoral degree.
What is an academic department?
300
The way most research is shared with other researchers. Usually a monthly or quarterly publication that features write-ups of the latest studies that have been done in a particular field.
What is a scholarly journal?
300
An institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees.
What is a university?
300
The academic disciplines that study people and their behavior from a variety of perspectives: as individuals (psychology), within social groups (sociology, ethnic studies), within cultures (anthropology), within social structures (education), or even as economic and political entities (economics, political science, global studies).
What are the social sciences?
300
An opportunity that provides students with pre-professional work opportunities in companies and organizations in the surrounding community, on campus, or another city, state, or country.
What is internships?
400
A "final paper" exemplifying research skills and expertise. Every Ph.D. program around the globe requires doctoral students to do extensive study in their discipline and then to choose a very narrow area in which to focus their research.
What is a doctoral dissertation?
400
A review of all that is currently known about a topic, as well as an overview of relevant past research.
What is a literature review?
400
An organization of research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education.
What is the Association of American Universities?
400
The academic disciplines that create systems for describing the physical world or human behavior in abstract or mathematical terms. Subject areas include mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
What are quantitative studies?
400
A field or area of study, such as: history, biology, mathematics, philosophy, dramatic arts, sociology, electical engineering, or music.
What is an academic discipline?
500
Using another's words or ideas without giving him or her credit, including using material from any source without giving the proper credit, purchasing a paper from the Internet, and misrepresenting the work of another as your own,
What is plagiarism?
500
Before a scholarly article is published, this extensive and anonymous evaluation of the quality of the research and writing must occur.
What is blind review?
500
The Foundation that classifies all institutions of higher education.
What is the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching?
500
The academic disciplines that explore and represent human thought and behavior in creative works. Subject areas include studio art, dramatic art, film studies, dance, and music.
What are the arts?
500
The academic disciplines that human thought and experience through the written record of what people have thought, felt or experienced in a variety of cultures. Subject areas include languages, literature, philosophy, history, and religion.
What are the humanities?