15-09-2017, 01:29 PM
While there is still a certain stigma attached to the Internet as an academic tool, prejudices against the Web are slowly declining, especially as students are showing instructors how powerful an Internet tool can be. This web resource is designed to help you develop Internet research skills.
When researching projects such as documents or reports for the class, we need to arrange the pieces of information into a meaningful whole. The key to effective research is not just gathering a lot of information. You also have to evaluate the information and make sense of it. The evaluation process is especially important for the information found on the Internet, since the Internet is a resource that provides access to a lot of information that varies considerably in quality and reliability.
The purpose of the research - in the context of this web resource - is to treat academic research at the university level. This type of research often bases the argument of an essay on the context or tradition of other thinkers who have worked on the same subject. For example, it might be necessary to find sources in Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman. You can compare your interpretation of the game with the interpretations that have come before.
University-level research often involves finding information about a specific topic and organizing that information in a meaningful way. I might even say that research involves making a kind of history of other unrelated details. Consider, for example, investigating the civil rights movement in the South of the United States. From a lot of details (including dates, people, places and events), it is necessary to create some connections between those details. So research is not just the process of finding information: it is making information make sense.
When researching projects such as documents or reports for the class, we need to arrange the pieces of information into a meaningful whole. The key to effective research is not just gathering a lot of information. You also have to evaluate the information and make sense of it. The evaluation process is especially important for the information found on the Internet, since the Internet is a resource that provides access to a lot of information that varies considerably in quality and reliability.
The purpose of the research - in the context of this web resource - is to treat academic research at the university level. This type of research often bases the argument of an essay on the context or tradition of other thinkers who have worked on the same subject. For example, it might be necessary to find sources in Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman. You can compare your interpretation of the game with the interpretations that have come before.
University-level research often involves finding information about a specific topic and organizing that information in a meaningful way. I might even say that research involves making a kind of history of other unrelated details. Consider, for example, investigating the civil rights movement in the South of the United States. From a lot of details (including dates, people, places and events), it is necessary to create some connections between those details. So research is not just the process of finding information: it is making information make sense.