Course 13 / 4 working modules
Research a Topic Before You Record
Build a compact, trustworthy source pack that improves the questions without scripting the answer in advance.
Start module 1The question you will answer
What research is actually useful before recording an expert conversation?
The thing you will leave with
A pre-recording research brief
A concise source pack with claims, provenance, disagreements, unknowns, and twelve question directions.
Course outline
Four modules. One working draft.
Follow the sequence or open any module. Nothing is locked behind a completion score.
- 01Module 1 / 3 method steps + workpadDefine the research decisionResearch expands endlessly unless it serves a recording decision. Name what the conversation should make clearer for a particular audience.Open
- 02Module 2 / 3 method steps + workpadBuild a small source setStart with the closest available evidence: original documents, direct statements, data, and informed criticism. Five well-read sources often outperform fifty skimmed results.Open
- 03Module 3 / 3 method steps + workpadMap tension and absenceStrong questions live where sources disagree, definitions shift, evidence is missing, or a trade-off stays implicit.Open
- 04Module 4 / 3 method steps + workpadTurn research into question directionsQuestions should invite the speaker to add evidence, interpretation, and boundaries. Avoid questions that merely ask them to confirm the research.Open