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Research Methods & Statistics
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Writing a Research Paper
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Choosing a Topic
Use online tools, and techniques like mind mapping, to sleuth out a great topic for your research paper.
Choosing a Topic Video3:55
What does it mean to be a scholarly source?
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- Attribution: Who said it
- Citation: Where they said it
Writing a Literature Review
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Graduate Student Overview: Writing a Literature Review
- Understand topics
- Develop your own ideas
- Demonstrate knowledge
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A part one, step-by-step tutorial for graduate students on how to write a literature review.
5 Tips
- Prepare subject overview, description and scope
- Identify and search
- Appraise
- Synthesize
- Analyze and Interpret
Finding Good Stuff on the Web
Using Google to Search the Internet
- Improve results
- Find scholarly material
- Find books
- Use filters to narrow results
- Search for original source images
6 Quick Tips
Finding Reputable Sources on the Web
- Government departments and agencies
- NGO's and IGO's
- Open source sites
- Professional organizations
- eBooks & other documents
- Google Scholar
Reading Long Articles
5 Quick Tips
How to Read a Research Article and Understand Its Purpose
- Take a preview
- Identify the purpose
- Analyze the solution
- Examine the evidence
- Read the literature review and references
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How to read, take effective notes, and find the main points in research articles.