Topic -> Question - LANG 3070 - English Communication for Humanities and Social Science Studies II - LibGuides at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library

Subthemes & Articles

You have 3 sub-themes for your conferences & your teachers have given you 1 article as a starting-point or example

Ancient artefacts and the contemporary world

He, Zeya, Laurie Wu, and Xiang (Robert) Li. “When Art Meets Tech: The Role of Augmented Reality in Enhancing Museum Experiences and Purchase Intentions.” Tourism Management 68 (2018): 127–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.03.003
- https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A540304210
Yeo, Lloyd, Sazryna Lee Samsudin, Cherie Heng, Ezal bin Sani, and Teddy Y. H. Sim. “A Case Study on the Incorporation of Museum and Artifact-Based Fieldtrips in the Teaching of Ancient Singapore History: Teacher Reflections and Student Learning.” In Fieldwork in Humanities Education in Singapore, 221–43. Singapore: Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8233-2_11.
- https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/cdi_springer_books_10_1007_978_981_15_8233_2_11
McDonald, Tom. “‘Social’ Money and Working-Class Subjectivities: Digital Money and Migrant Labour in Shenzhen, China.” The China Quarterly 242, (2020): 397–417. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741019001073.
- https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2488882969

Discourse communities

Peng, Altman Yuzhu, Chunyan Wu, and Meng Chen. “Sportswomen Under the Chinese Male Gaze: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis.” Critical Discourse Studies [ahead-of-print] (2022): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2098150
- https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/cdi_informaworld_taylorfrancis_310_1080_17405904_2022_2098150
Skalicky, Stephen. “Was This Analysis Helpful? A Genre Analysis of the Amazon.com Discourse Community and Its ‘most Helpful’ Product Reviews.” Discourse, Context & Media 2, no. 2 (2013): 84–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2013.04.001
- https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A484173882
McNamara, Thomas. “Do the Chinese Bring Chitukuko? Rural Malawian Understandings of Chinese Development.” Journal of International Development 29, no. 8 (2017): 1149–65. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3313

Utopia and dystopia

Adams, Matthew. “Communicating Vegan Utopias: The Counterfactual Construction of Human-Animal Futures.” Environmental Communication 16, no. 1 (2022): 125–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2021.1969977
- https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/bib/cdi_informaworld_taylorfrancis_310_1080_17524032_2021_1969977 https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2021.1969977.
Benson, Anya. “The Utopia of Suburbia: The Unchanging Past and Limitless Future in Doraemon.” Japan Forum, 27, no. 2 (2015): 235–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2015.1015597

A topic is NOT a research question.

Example1:

Sub-theme: Spirituality & Religion

Topic: Buddhism in China

Possible Questions:

What circumstances in contemporary China tend to lead people to becoming more “actively” Buddhist?
How do people start to self-identify as Buddhist in large cities like Tianjin or Chengdu?
When a person decides to become a Buddhist monk or nun in contemporary Chinese societies like Hong Kong, Taiwan, or mainland China, how do their parents and friends react, and why?

Example 2:

Sub-theme: Gender & Family

How to go from topic to questions:

1. Do some background reading, and/or outline what you have learned about your topic from previous classes and reading in the past few years

2. List questions & answers you may already have, along these lines

3. Think about your questions and what answers you have.

4. Try to make a few clear questions, that are based on some of the ideas (theories, words, methods) that you have learned in your course.

5. Try to choose one of the questions, not too wide & not too narrow.

6. Be prepared for your question to change.