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Ideas for Topic Entries
The list below presents possible topics for your project notebook.
Each entry you write will usually include more than one of the
following:
- Reviews of Literature/journal articles (includes reference
citations & gaps/successes of previous research)
- Conference/meeting notes
- Plans for gathering data
- Experiments run (includes detailed methods/measurements)
- Report of field work
- Progress reports
- Questions for advisors
- Problematic experiments
- Problematic data
- Possible solutions of problems
- Equipment and material requirements
- Scheduling considerations
- Budget considerations
- Staff considerations
- Interesting quotations (includes source)
- Tangential thoughts/inspirations
- Possibilities of future work
- Relationships to other projects/problems
- Comments/criticisms from colleagues/advisors
- Process analyses
- Drafts of introductions, methods, results, solutions, abstracts
- Questions for discussion
- Sketches/charts
- Formulas/statistics/functions
- Limitations of research
- Dead ends (problems that didn't get solved)
- Successes (detailed accounts of solutions)
- Cross-referencing with own notes/previous readings/previous
work
- Legal/ethical issues
- Implications/applications of work
- Links to cause and effect-how can they be strengthened
- Flaws in project design
- Lists of variables
- Copies of bureaucratic forms/permissions/communications that
relate to the project
- Testing procedures
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