This repository contains instructions that guide you through a research process adapted from The Craft of Research by Booth, Colomb, and Williams.

Major milestones in this process are:

• Stating a precise, significant claim
• Planning a convincing, evidence-based argument for your claim
• Communicating your argument to appropriate audiences, in the form(s) of a report, presentation, poster, etc.

This repository is designed to support simultaneous exploration of multiple possible research topics, in parallel. A git branch named firstIdea has been created for you; use it to explore your first idea. Other ideas can be tracked by creating additional working branches. Use the master branch only for official assignment submission, not exploration or "work in progress". You should use the pull request process to select and move content from a working branch to the master branch. If this is new to you, consult your instructor for assistance.

You have administrative access to your repo. You can use the Settings to protect your master branch so that it cannot be changed by direct commit, but only by pull requests. You can also choose a different default branch if that is convenient.