{"id":1455,"date":"2017-09-26T03:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T03:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2017-09-26T03:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T03:09:25","slug":"the-professor-is-in-how-to-ask-smart-questions-chroniclevitae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/the-professor-is-in-how-to-ask-smart-questions-chroniclevitae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Professor Is In: How to Ask \u2018Smart\u2019 Questions | ChronicleVitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/920\/files\/2017\/09\/full_poppins-2.jpg\" alt=\"Full poppins\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, engaging questions can fit into the following genres. Think of them as templates of sorts and teach yourself to look for places in a talk or a paper where one of these will organically make sense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarifying questions: &#8220;On page 13, you say X implies Y. Can you say more about how one follows the other?<\/li>\n<li>Challenging questions (but be nice about how you ask): &#8220;Isn\u2019t it possible that that passage\/quote\/dataset can be also interpreted in ABC way, which would imply XYZ about the larger argument?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Suggestions disguised as questions: &#8220;Do you happen to know the work of this obscure and\/or brand-new scholar? They look at XYZ in a way that resonates with your approach. You may find it of interest.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Process questions (which people like because they like talking about their research):&#8221;Can you say a little bit about how you chose this particular example\/case study\/methodology?&#8221; (This is really a reliable fallback.)<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual-team questions: As long as you are clear on the contribution of the work to a body of theory, you can ask something like, &#8220;So, obviously your work speaks to issues in the Big Polarizing Theory Debate. How do you see your research situated in relation to XYZ aspect of this scholarly conversation?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclevitae.com\/news\/1904-the-professor-is-in-how-to-ask-smart-questions?cid=VTEVPMSED1\">The Professor Is In: How to Ask \u2018Smart\u2019 Questions | ChronicleVitae<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond that, engaging questions can fit into the following genres. Think of them as templates of sorts and teach yourself to look for places in a talk or a paper where one of these will organically make sense. Clarifying questions: &#8220;On page 13, you say X implies Y. Can you say more about how one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-other","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}