Water in the Law and Environmental Sciences in Six Weeks or More

So we’ve all gotten extremely vague cross-disciplinary research topics from our respective faculty before.

Text Box: Prompt:  Using Washington Code, legal resources, and academic journals, create a case study that examines a specific issue in one county in Washington State.)

What do you do?  Where do you start? How do you research something like this?

The first question really should be: what most interests you?  No matter what anyone tells you this is the most significant question of the research project for two reasons. 

First, you are going to spending lots of time researching this topic, and second, if you are engaged in your topic, you won’t mind spending a significant amount of time researching it.

 

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Intro

Step One: Finding the Focus

Step Two: Narrowing to My Topic

Step Three: Collecting Background Information

Step Four: Assessing What I Know

Step Five: Assessing What I Don't Know

Step Six: Entering Database Land

Step Seven: Entering Government Document Land

Step Eight: Wrapping it Up