The Research Blueprint - Session 1 : Framing the Research Process
Abstract
This course offers graduate students a structured and comprehensive overview of the academic research and writing process, with a focus on the critical support and services provided by the university library. It is designed to guide students from the initial stages of topic formulation through to the dissemination of their research, while promoting ethical, impactful, and open scholarly practices. This course is a collaborative initiative between two university libraries within the frame of the EELISA consortium. I was designed to support graduate students in understanding the full scope of the academic research and writing process. Through a series of joint and institution-specific sessions, students will gain both foundational knowledge and practical awareness of the resources/tools available at their home institutions. By the end of this session, students will be able to : -Formulate clear focused and researchable questions-Recognize conventions and expectations in scholalry writing-Identify and understand the key component of a research paper The 1st session proposes an initiation to the process of research in 3 points : 1/ Formulating a research question2/ Understanding scholarly writing conventions3/ Exploring the structure of a research paper This data set is composed of the presentation material (41 slides) in PDF format, reusable under the licence CC-BY 4.0.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Library Science and Information Literacy
Academic Writing and Publishing
Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 23 February 2026
- Language
- EN