Creating and Using a Research Journal

What is a Research Journal and Why Should You Use One?



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If you are at the point in your university program where you are ready to begin your research, congratulations! This marks a milestone in your degree progress and signals a shift in your focus.

At the brink of beginning to conduct qualitative or quantitative research it can feel a bit daunting. There will be many things to track and monitor, gather and organize, synthesize and analyze. How will you manage it all? A research journal, log, diary, memoir will keep you organized and in control of all the moving parts of your research.

A research journal is a place for your research notes, ahas, questions, and insights. It records the story of your research process.

Video 1 What is a Research Journal Anyway?
Video 2 My Journal - My Story
Video 3 Choices, Ideas, and Tips

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.
Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself