# Table of Contents for ME 3100 - Engineering Research and Leadership Management

## Files
- [[1. Goals and Outcomes.md]]
- [[2. State of the Art and Limits of Current Practice.md]]
- [[3. Research Approach.md]]
- [[4. Metrics of Success.md]]
- [[5. Research Impact.md]]
- [[6. Risks and Contingencies.md]]
- [[ERLM_Structure_of_Objectives_Page.pdf]]

## Summary
I'll provide a general outline for each section, following the provided instructions.

**3. Research Approach**

* Read the Research Approach section and identify a paragraph that is four to five sentences long.
* Analyze this passage structurally:
	1. Underline the Topic of each sentence in the passage, stopping when you hit a verb. Check if the occupant of the Topic position is indeed the person, thought, or thing whose story the sentence is about. Check each sentence for the location of old information that makes an important link backward to the previous sentence.
	2. Circle the Stress position in the sentence. This is the last clause or phrase of each sentence. (A Stress position is any moment of closure resulting from punctuation --- before a properly used period, colon, or semi-colon.) Check each sentence for the location of information that you think is stress-worthy. See if each piece of such information is located in a Stress position.
	3. Attempt to rewrite the passage with your choices for old/new information and stress-worthy material.
* Share this rewrite in your review.

**4. Metrics of Success**

* Read the entire document, identifying sections or paragraphs that you find challenging or confusing to read --- if you have to reread a paragraph to grasp its message, circle it.
* Answer the following questions:
	1. Are the milestones reasonable for the project? Do they mark events that are a significant change or stage in development?
	2. Are the deliverables appropriate for the project? Can the investigator/team deliver on their promise?
	3. Are metrics for success clearly identified in the proposal? These metrics may not necessarily be in the Milestones and Deliverables section. Rather, they could be earlier in the document, like the Objectives or the Research Approach. Do the metrics validate a well-defined hypothesis of record? Are the metrics measurable?

**General Discussion**

* Choose three paragraphs from the document for analysis.
* Analyze each paragraph structurally:
	1. Turn off your substance-reading machine and turn on your structural awareness. Don't read a sentence to see if it makes sense or sounds good or seems to help develop your thought.
	2. Follow the [Reading Structurally](https://canvas.pitt.edu/courses/172922/pages/reading-structurally "Reading Structurally") outline.
* Take notes on your observations for each paragraph.
* Focus on two aspects:
	1. Action/Agency: Is there any evidence of action or agency in this section?
	2. Topic/Stress: Are the topics and stress positions clear?

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