Unlike many, I feel as thought my research and writing family came to a consensus on our research topic with ease. When we first met we discussed our overall interest within our fields. We were not to focused on connecting our individual projects so that eliminated any possible divisions within our group. Also, only three out of four members were present at the time. The three of us were all in the College of Agriculture Consumer and Environmental Science (ACES), which made it fairly simple to connect our interest. The three of us had come to an agreement on a topic during our first meeting. Once our fourth and final member was introduced, we asked for her interest and related it to the established topic. Our fourth member has a background in mathematics so we acknowledged her disconnect by explaining some key terms that were essential to our topic. The formation of our alliance was almost effortless and I am sure that it is because of the close relationships between our backgrounds and personal interest.
-Lakiah N. Clark
This is a space where UIUC SPI participants in the Summer 2013 Research Methods and Writing Seminar engage each other as researchers, intellectuals and members of a cross disciplinary knowledge producing community.
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