Monday, September 11, 2023

Utilizing the Process of Heuristic Education for Research Project

Meiyuan Lin, Verrazzano Class of 2023, completed majors in Business Finances, Economics, and minor in Chinese

The process of my capstone cultivated ideas of meaningful research, compiling subjects’ significant concepts and theories into one paper. Some of the components came from previous courses which included economics, accounting, finance, and psychology. It was an advantage to be able to build my ideas over a period of time.

Even though it didn’t require specific writing, a topic popped up in my mind when I learned about the capstone requirement. “How to Value Securities and Mitigating Risks” relates to the realm of security investment or financial management.

The research process functioned on heuristic education; giving a mission with clearing goals but not intrusion, which drove me to review and summarize class work, and compose my project in a free frame of restriction. From time to time, I accumulated outlines from research and amalgamated concepts into the classroom. I deep dived into financial statements analysis and studied how to interpret a firm’s management discussions and disclosures to review business conditions. I attended investment practitioner meetings to learn strategies from senior analysts.

I learned many things from my research. Most of all, the project stimulated to me to grasp pivotal concepts from classes and research. I jotted notes with incentives, and I collected terminologies to organize phrases. To elaborate on my capstone project, I read many books and textbooks including the "Interpretation of Financial Statements", which was written by the famous value investor Benjamin Graham, who was the teacher of Warren Buffett, the successful value investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

This project was helpful for me as it constituted learning skills and clarified theories in classrooms. Although it was a complicated project, the process benefitted me to finish the work over time. Phrase by phrase, paragraph by paragraph, I finally smoothed the discussions to be a condensed security investment research paper, which I believe will be beneficial to learners who are interested in the securities investment area.

What a great process! The heuristic model is a technique not only for learning and teaching, but also for cooperation and management. I will elaborate on the model if there is another opportunity.




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