This rigorous one-year program equips students with tools for researching, chronicling, and interpreting all aspects of design. Each student is asked to identify an individual research territory to ...

If you've been thinking about taking your research, writing, and critical thinking skills to the next level or have a design research project you’d like to develop and launch, the MA Design Research, ...

Molly Butcher, SVA MA Design Research class of 2015, researched the marketing of Martian and extraterrestrial settlements. Toroidal Colony, Cutaway view, exposing the interior. Art work: Rick Guidice.

Require many reliable sources to back up your thesis/claim. Take up a position and support it with evidence. Usually about events (historical or current), textual arguments, or personal interests.

In putting together this special report on how writing instruction can and should build on the science of reading, Education Week reporters read through dozens of studies and spoke to leading ...