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do not include readings (though readings could be added)
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extend a single investigation across a term, or at least
several weeks
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provide more than one way to begin and develop the
investigation, so individual assignments are not necessarily sequential
(except in the Organizational Needs Assessment Project)
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encourage students to work in teams to cover different
aspects of the project and/or pool data
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invite students to imagine non-academic venues for their
research
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connect to larger researcher projects underway (Water
Project, Public Space) and encourage contributions to these projects
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are more open-ended, leaving decisions about questions,
methods and forms of presentation to be worked out by the researchers
and/or their teachers
