Transition into research skills

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Transition into research skills

• Jane Challinor
• School of Social Sciences

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Stereotype of student carrying out research at
University
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Where we want/ need them to be researching?
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On line searching requires new skills
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Building skills.. ..from the
inside
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Stage 1 First go to the Diigo group site and
choose ONE article which you are going to use as
your starting point. You should read this
article and make notes identifying the main
themes. Stage 2 Next you should identify key
words associated with this article and use these
as search terms. Enter these search terms into
e-search to identify a further two related
articles. In Stage 3, once you have collected
your resources, you should read through or
watch/listen to these and once again make notes
about the key themes. Stage 4 - This is where
you start to evaluate and analyse each of the
sources you have read. What research is it based
on? What is the aim of the author? How convincing
or valid are the arguments used? How does the
conclusion differ from or how similar is it to
another resource?
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• Stage 5 start to structure your essay. Create a
  title or question which your essay should answer
• You should start with a short and concise
  introduction which tells the reader the theme of
  your essay, the main areas you are going to
  explore and, briefly, what your conclusion will
  be.
• The main body of your essay should compare and
  contrast the articles you have used as your
  sources. This is not about simply DESCRIBING what
  each article has said, but pulling out the main
  arguments and evaluating them.
• Finally you should draw a conclusion from what
  you have read. This is not just what YOU think
  about the issue, it is the culmination of your
  research and reading, your analysis of the
  articles and your comparison of the different
  views.
• Stage 6 involves citing and referencing all your
  resources correctly and compiling a Reference
  List which will go at the end of your assignment.

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Starting with bookmarked articles other web
based resources using DIIGO
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Screen Capture tutorial on using Library One
Search
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A first step towards designing a research
question ..
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More support step by step audio/video reminders
on structure, referencing, research strategies
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More support step by step audio/video reminders
on structure, referencing, research strategies
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• Outcomes
• module evaluation
• students assignments

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• Outcomes
• module evaluation
• students assignments

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• Outcomes
• module evaluation
• students assignments

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Mature student (access to HE course) mid 1st
class
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Traditional (lt21 yrs) student, straight from
school mid 22
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Referencing is something I had never needed to
use before therefore I found this area of
academic writing a huge challenge and indeed time
consuming. Although I do recognise the need for
this. I have found this difficult to grasp and
hopefully over the forthcoming years I will find
much easier to do. Reading journal articles I
have found to be quite difficult and have felt I
have not grasped this way of reading correctly.
This is something I would definitely like to
enhance and hopefully I will learn to do
effectively..
Final portfolio reflections on the year.
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the module has helped me develop my research
skills by learning about different methods of
collecting data, writing styles, analysing
findings and organising workloads to understand
literature by breaking it down to easily get a
better understanding. The research skills I have
developed from this module have widened my way of
using IT in order to achieve valuable outcome and
interesting ways of researching.
. and on the module Mature student returning to
study after 10 year gap