Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics.

As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor. Deciphering the planet's history and processes could improve the ...

This Pew Research Center report examines whether AI-generated survey data can accurately duplicate the results of high-quality public opinion polls. We conducted this methodological experiment to ...

Keep in mind that you likely won’t proceed through these steps linearly. Research can be messy! You may find yourself finding background information, refining your research question, possibly changing ...

Ten years ago, the Pew Research Center was established by The Pew Charitable Trusts to bring together several of Pew’s information initiatives. The new organization had a unique mission to offer ...

On February 13, 2026, my colleagues at the Abu Dhabi-based Technology Innovation Institute’s (TII) Propulsion and Space ...

I decided what to do with my life based on reading descriptions of psychology research written for normal, curious people who had no training in the subject. I remember reading Malcolm Gladwell’s ...