Research at the graduate level is all about quality and engagement. Grad students typically enter their programs with a partial awareness of what research in their field looks like -- yet are expected to leave prepared to do in-depth tasks like conduct original research, write about research for advanced audiences, or translate research into new professional practice.

In this module, we examine what it means to become engaged with research as a graduate student, including the relationship between engagement and foundational tasks like:

Conducting a literature review
Using a variety of platforms to find highly-cited scholarly articles
Efficiently scanning scholarly articles for key information
Knowing how to use a citation to look up a scholarly work from a bibliography

Are you a student who has already engaged in graduate-level research?

You might prefer to skip ahead to this module's activity breakout page, or you may choose to jump directly to Slack to talk more about your specific research interests in one of the disciplinary channels.

Don't forget, if you change your mind you can always go back to previous material by clicking "Modules" in the navigation sidebar.