This course covers a broad range of issues related to authorship and AI. As demonstrated in your course readings, scholars of authorship work from many different disciplinary standpoints. Your final project may require you to draw on historical primary sources, law and court cases, critical theory, or other sources. 

Brainstorming is a tool to help you:

• explore your topic;
• discover possible lines of inquiry;
• consider search terms;
• brainstorm resources to investigate.

Ask yourself: what do I already know about my topic? what am I curious about? what kind of information do I need, and where am I likely to find that information?

From a disciplinary perspective, think about what kind of questions scholars and experts in that discipline are interested in, and how they would ask those questions or measure their findings. Adding interdisciplinary layers to your brainstorming can help you see connections between your areas of interest and the experts asking those same questions from multiple perspectives.

This exercise is designed to help you develop a thoughtful topic for your AI & Authorship paper.

Using the worksheet provided, explore questions A-C to help you better understand and refine your thinking about your research topic. 

Pro Tips:

• Contact a librarian whenever questions arise. Quick questions can be answered via email; more in-depth questions can be handled best with an appointment.
• Work on your project consistently each and every week, so that materials have time to arrive from other libraries and we can answer your questions when you still have sufficient time to thoughtfully revise your work.
• Seek out a variety of sources: books, essays in books, journal articles.
• Use a variety of search tools: Primo, multiple databases, sometimes even Google Scholar. If your topic is interdisciplinary, take a look at related subject guides to find broader research tools.
• Keep careful notes on all of your sources and use a citation management tool such as RefWorks or Zotero. If an online knowledge management tool is not for you, make sure that any system that you do use is thorough.