Scientific Research

Research is a process :

Ways to Get Started:

What holds students back?

According to a report on how college students do research, this is what students have the most trouble with. Here's the graph:

Keep an Open Mind Regarding:

Write About What You Discover

Let's say you are trying to argue against hand-held texting while driving. However, in your research you find this summary of research done by University of Utah psychologist David Strayer that found:

So if the safe operation of a car is the core motivation for your argument, you might have to pivot your research to examine all the aspects of cell phones, hand free or otherwise, and the extent to which they distract the driver.

•Adjust your research and restructure your argument when credible, current source material:

•Suggests that solutions to your issue are more complex than you first believed.

•Offers that there are multiple solutions to the same problem.

•Reveals that there are newer, evidence-based paths to positive change.

•Provides new research that indicates your current thinking might be flawed.

•Indicates that your issue might be one part of a much larger problem that requires far greater change than you imagined.

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Scholar

Why scholarly ?

Why databases?

Especially when you use library databases for your research, some of articles you discover will likely be 'scholarly'. Most of the time this means that those who have conducted research in their field have published their findings in an academic journal. The most credible type of journals are those that have published articles following a rigorous 'peer-review' process. In this case the 'peers' are other experts in the field.

Scholarly or peer-reviewed sources :

• Are written for and reviewed by fellow academics or researchers in the field.

• Are excellent for finding out what has been studied or researched on a topic.

• Contain original research or in-depth study in the field.

• Provide extensive references leading to other relevant sources of information.

• Use the technical language of the field.

citation

Citation Help And Avoiding Plagiarism

The purpose of a research paper

is to synthesize previous research and scholarship with your ideas on the subject. Therefore, you should feel free to use other persons' words, facts, and thoughts in your research paper, but the material you borrow must not be presented as if it were your own creation. When you write your research paper, remember that you must document everything that you borrow--not only direct quotations and paraphrases but also information and ideas."

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009. 55. Print.

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