Research and Methodology: Inscription as a Liberating Practice

This week's lecture was our last of Freshman Seminar! I can't believe the semester's almost over; it went by so quickly! Our final lecturer was the chair of the English department, Dr. Dana Williams (she's a fellow Williams so I knew she would be great ;) ). Dr. Williams really put the purpose of the course in context. She spoke to us about how to be effective researchers. She shared a variety of methods and resources for us to make use of in order to conduct proper research. These tips could be applied to just about any research field of study. It was interesting to think about how the previous lecturers employed these tools to conduct their own research. I've been doing research in my English class and I hope to conduct research this summer. I know for sure I'll be using a lot of what Dr. Williams covered.