Paper Solution Weakness Assignment
Discussion
- S-1: Read the required readings (listed below) for this option. For each required reading, please address the following:
- S-1-a: Identify a meaningful weakness of the paper (not about those trivial ones). Explain why this weakens the paper, including—if possible—a discussion of how to overcome the identified weakness in order to improve the paper. You are welcome to identify more than one weakness and more than one solution.
- S-1-b: What kind of new question(s) could be raised? Please briefly describe/justify why the new question (s) is unique, interesting, and/or meaningful (similar to address the question of “So what”).
- S-2: If there is more than one required reading under this option, please compare all required readings and treat these required readings as secondary literature and use them effectively, in order to 1) be synthetic and yield new insights (e.g., conceptual insights), and/or 2) identify a shared and important weakness that requires investigation (e.g., conceptual or methodological, etc.). Please focus on insights/weaknesses that are unique, interesting, and/or meaningful. For example, if there are two required readings under this option, you can compare and contrast the two required readings to see (1) if insights/strengths derived from one required reading can be used to address/overcome the weaknesses/issues from the other required reading, and/or (2) if there is a same or similar weakness from both required readings that requires investigation (e.g., conceptual or methodological, etc.) in order to advance our knowledge. Note: Insights/questions/weaknesses for S-2 do not need to be the same as those for S-1; the reason is that S-2 is more about comparing all required readings while S-1 emphasizes on each individual required reading.
