{"id":295,"date":"2009-11-18T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/?p=295"},"modified":"2009-11-18T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:29:48","slug":"the-10-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/2009\/11\/the-10-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These questions were originally posed by <a href=\"http:\/\/execed.bus.umich.edu\/Faculty\/FacultyBio.aspx?id=000119709\">Dennis Severance<\/a>, and I was introduced to them by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~jsolson\/\">Judy Olson<\/a> as a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information. They serve as a way to guide the research process and structure an argument for a presentation, paper, research proposal, etc. I&#8217;ve found them really useful and frequently go back to them as a way to critique my own writing.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is the problem? (in the theoretical debate, the world)<\/li>\n<li>Who cares? (an argument about its importance)<\/li>\n<li>What have others done? (the lit review, but pointed as an argument)<\/li>\n<li>What is your approach? (your general approach, the new idea)<\/li>\n<li>What are you going to do explicitly? (your operationalization, investigation)<\/li>\n<li>What will happen? (or did happen, if you have results)<\/li>\n<li>What does this mean? (in terms of answering the problem)<\/li>\n<li>Who cares? (in what way is this important)<\/li>\n<li>Where will you publish these results?<\/li>\n<li>What will you be doing in 5 years?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Cal Lee also wrote about these questions in more detail in a 2002 article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ils.unc.edu\/callee\/guerrilla_erm_2002.pdf\">Guerrilla Electronic Records Management<\/a>. I was also reminded that these questions are similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_H._Heilmeier#Heilmeier.27s_Catechism\">Heilmeier&#8217;s Catechism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These questions were originally posed by Dennis Severance, and I was introduced to them by Judy Olson as a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information. They serve as a way to guide the research process and structure an argument for a presentation, paper, research proposal, etc. I&#8217;ve found them really useful and frequently go back to them as a way to critique my own writing. What is the problem? (in the theoretical debate, the world) Who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}