ut being boring。 It should be innovative。 There is no point to do something that people have already done a lot before。 It has an interesting question to ask。 It should be sound and well…done and of course it is well…written or people won’t read it。
C： How would you weigh the importance of forming good research questions versus developing good research methodologies？
D： Both are important but if you don’t have an interesting and good question； you might start at a wrong point。 The problem of social science research in the ； too narrow to be interesting。 There is a large range of interesting questions to explore。
C： I think the definition of a good research is different for undergraduates and graduates。
D： For ； we tell them you are writing a book。 The dissertation should be movable to a book。 Some publishers told me that two departments are well…known among publishers for generating dissertation books； Chicago and Yale。 A dissertation book is often narrower than what will e ten years later because it is the first book and it is not famous or sound or important as the books we often see。 Nevertheless； a dissertation book should be reasonably broad； interesting and convincing。
For undergraduate； we usually get them to write something that is sound； well…quoted in literature and the question is reasonable； that a scholar would