Searching and Researching Blog Post (Module 6)

Hello Everyone,

I am directing my post to current and future students. The most interesting thing that I’ve learned from Module 6 is search Vs. Research. I didn’t ask my self before that there is a difference between them at all or even didn’t realize the difference. After reading module 6 I found that there is a huge difference between them. As in marc’s Article, the difference between them is “The “tradition” of search is a relatively new one—certainly less than a decade old.” and “The tradition of “research,” in a school or academic setting, is a long and important one, and was established precisely for the purpose of determining the “quality” of information.” From what I’ve learned that the Research method is based on the quality, reliability and utility of the information. In the research process, questions are very important they are defining exactly what I am looking for as a researcher. Narrowing a topic is one of the tools that is used in research in order to get specific and more detailed, researchers should narrow their topic and ask specific questions. Moreover, background reading is important as soon as you find the narrow topic questions start reading about what exactly you are looking for and for my self  I take some aside notes on each reading so I know where I go from. There is also a difference between regular question and research. A regular question is about right or wrong but research question there is no right or wrong. In research, Reliability is important which is a citation and also is the author information available and are the credentials of the author listed. quality of the information and how narrow and focus on a specific topic is. the utility is the last step you have to ask yourself if the information is related to your topic or not and if it is sufficient and appropriate to the audience or not.

 

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