“Research takes you somewhere you haven’t been before, in fact, to places you didn’t know existed” (Stancliff and Goggin)

Answer the following questions.
1. Read the above quotes. What do they say about the activity of researching? Do you agree with their philosophies? Explain.
2. What issues do you discuss most with friends and family? Why?

3. In what issues do you feel most emotionally involved? What issues, when you discuss them, inspire strong feelings? Identify them and explain why they inspire such feelings.
4. Is there an issue in your community (family, team, school, work place, town, state) that is currently having a major impact? Identify and describe that issue and why it matters to you or that community.

5. If you have an intended career or field of interest, what are the major issues about which members of that field are concerned? Identify them and explain why they are of concern.
6. About what local, national and/or international issues of social justice and human rights are you passionate or concerned? Identify them and explain why they are of concern.