So this week Luker discusses how to hone in on a research question and find resources that support your research question. She advocates visualizing a reasarch "frame" or "hook" in order to narrow down your research interests into a research question. She advises students to research and think about which journal you would like to see your work published in to help you visualize a proper research question.
In chapter 5 she advises students to start reviewing the literature and to prioritize and organize the literature by using a "bedraggled daisy" which is a complex Venn diagram that links all related areas of your research together. The centre of the complex daisy diagram is information and literature you should seek out.
Just as an aside...possibly the best thing that came out of chapter 5 was learning how to "Harvard". Luker advises students to throw away those highlighters and stop reading intensely! If you don't get the book's argument blame the author-after all the author has failed to make his or her points easy to read and digest and if the book isn't totally and completely related to your research then don't waste much time on it.
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