Module 7: The Scoping Zone

This module represents the scoping zone, which opens the project’s disciplinary and social/contextual extent of inquiry. “Scoping” a project specifies its conceptual breadth as well as its limits. Exercises help clarify both in order to compose an overarching (scoping) research question and to specify the project’s overall intellectual and social significance. Drawing on the MO (Module 6) and previous concept work, a scoping question will be composed, which overarches the whole framework of inquiry, while gesturing to disciplinary and social significance. The scoping question provides a strong but iterable foundation for subsequent sets of project questions (data-gathering questions and interacting questions) in upcoming modules.