Inquiry Questions Forum

In preparation for forming the inquiry groups that will drive our next assignment, which entails posing a specific research question about climate change, finding sources to answer that question, and narrating those findings, visit our forums page at the Writing Studio.  

There you will find two forums, one for section 37 and the other for 44.  Click on your section, and propose (in one post) three possible research questions about climate change that seem genuinely interesting.  In proposing each specific question, think of the range of ideas we have been privy to in our readings, and the "questions at issue" that drive each author's inquiry. Realize that these questions (for instance, "Why Bother?") avoid binary (yes or no) answers. In your post, you should also identify the broader discipline or topic to which the question belongs.  An example:

• Epidemiology: How are temperature fluctuations linked to climate change affecting diseases among human populations?

Two of your disciplines or topics could come from the following suggestions, which draw on our inquiry list, but another should be new and different (such as gardening or aerospace):

• Community organizing
• Biology and genetics
• Economics
• Ecology
• Education
• Energy
• Engineering
• Health and epidemiology 
• History
• Literature and rhetoric
• Security and diplomacy
• Physics and chemistry
• Politics and government
• Psychology and sociology
• Health and epidemiology
• Transportation
• Visual and performing arts

Once you have proposed three possible research questions, print out your post and bring it to class on Friday.