Don’t procrastinate. Good research takes time. Procrastinating makes it likely you’ll run out of time to complete your assignment before you need to turn it in. Plan your research well in advance, and make sure you have enough time to get everything done.
This is something I struggle with very often, if I cannot find exactly what I am looking for I will get demotivated and waste time. This is something I am trying to improve on
Remember, the purpose of research is to make an original argument, and not to just pull together big blocks of quotes.
This is often something I find myself struggling with I will quote too much of a part of a text then have a hard time trying to get across the point im trying to make.
Instead, research is a process where scholars build on older work while sharing their new ideas. When you cite others’ research, you’re doing the same thing
This is a very interesting concept I have never thought of it this way but it describes citing very well and clearly and helps understand why it’s important
When you create a free account with a site to get more access, you are providing information about yourself and your online activity. So, while access to a resource may be free, you are still trading something in exchange for this access. Companies collect information about you so they can target ads to your interests based on your activities or sell your information.
I hate this system it feels very predatory collecting information often unknowingly for benefit.
You interact with information on a daily basis. Most of it is free. But when looking for more scholarly papers and articles, you likely begin to come up against paywalls that bar the public access to important information.
This happens very often and i find it quite annoying that scholarly information can be paywalled.
Information literacy is a life skill that will help you apply critical thinking and reflection to locate, evaluate, and use quality information.
This is a important because there is so much information and it can be hard to sift through the correct information.
Time management is frequently a problem for most individuals at one point or another. For students, feeling overwhelmed with college studies, illness, and/or personal issues are all common factors that may lead to missing deadlines.
Time management has always been something i have struggled with while in college.
your academic library provides access to physical and digtial materials to support research needs across various subject areas.
I dont often take advantage of the academic library, I only find myself using it if i need to write papers or research for papers.
You cannot reliably find a book chapter by searching for the chapter author’s name or the chapter title. To find a book chapter from its citation, you’ll first need to find the book that contains that chapter.
I have never been able to do this properly so this is very interesting to learn
AND specifies that all the keywords you connect with AND must be present in your search results. The more search terms you add with AND, the more you will restrict your results, and the fewer results you will get.
I have used these before researching for a paper and I think it helped because i was searching for a very specific concept and i wasnt getting very good results
Phrase searching is when you take a specific phrase and enter it into the search box using quotations around it. It’s helpful when you want to find a specific term or phrase, for example “solar energy.”
I find myself using phrase searching the most, because I feel like its the most efficient way for me to get results
It is important to think about your search terms more carefully so you get better and more relevant results for your research.
I find this to be very important because i am very bad at finding the right words to get the results that best suit what im looking for
News articles often don’t include direct links to their sources. They may only mention the name of a researcher or institution and not provide a full citation or link.
I have encountered this many times and have always found it strange because you cant verify a claim if you dont have a direct source so you are basically taking their word for it.
Biases can be driven by commercial interests, the influence of a publisher or publication’s audience, or personal beliefs, such as the political or religious beliefs of an author.
I think this is also very important to note when researching anything, finding if the author or publisher has any ulterior motive for sharing information
You may have noticed by now that we’ve mentioned Wikipedia a few times. Yes! Just like we said earlier in this textbook, Wikipedia can be incredibly useful for finding background information about an author or publication. You may find more works by the author you are looking into, as well as more articles about them in the reference section of a Wikipedia entry.
Every teacher i have had since now has been promptly against Wikipedia so i find this very interesting. Wikipedia is easy to edit in theory but as easy as it can be changed it can also be changed back.
a source confirms or denies what you believe to be true, you may have an emotional reaction (e.g. anger, sadness, vindication, excitement). Use your reaction as a reminder to check yourself and make sure your emotions are not affecting the sources you use and how you use them.
I definitely think this is very important to realize because when your emotions get involved it can lead to much less efficient research