Getting to a Research Question

1. What is the question your dissertation will answer? This is you elevator pitch, one sentence that describes your group of interests
2. Why do you want to work about this question? (this is where you put the stories about hoe you were led to this idea)
3. How do these ideas help build the design conversation, make it larger, or more inclusive?
4. For what audience are you making this project, and why should anyone care about it? (get specific)
5. Who will be affected by your project? (who is your practical audience? who will use what you design?)
6. How will your dissertation be remembered and retold?

“There is nothing to writing. all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”

-Ernest Hemmingway

1. Plain English

• Make it as simple as I can.
• You don’t need to use big words.
• Define things in plain english, you don’t have you write fancy.
• A good dissertation is inclusive for all, in a way everyone will understand.
• 15-20 words per sentence.

The more you understand the topic in question, the better you will be able to write content that’s relevant and interesting to read.