SHSS - PDEV - Search research literature effectively: Start

Research is Conducted by:

Associations | Businesses | Charities | Governments | Individuals (people)  | Institutions (universities, think tanks, etc.) | Pressure groups | Trade Unions  

►    Information is Generated from:

Research  |  Critical evaluations  | Interperative work

►   Information from, on, or about Research is Communicated  via:

Anthologies | Blogs | Books (monographs) | Book chapters | Conference Papers |  Emails | Journals |  Journal articles | Lectures | Letters | Meetings | Newsletters  | Newspapers | Reports | Seminars |  Textbooks  | Theses | Tweets

► Information from, on, or about Research is Organized  in:

Article Databases | Bibliographies | Data Repositories |  Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Library Catalogs

(Hart, 1998, p. 4)

Before the workshop, please watch the following short videos. You will learn about and practice some of these techniques in the workshop.

1. What is Citation Chaining  (2 min, 3 sec) – from the Claremont Colleges Library
2. Citation Chaining with GoogleScholar (1 min, 27 sec)
3. Advanced Search in PowerSearch (2 min , 9 sec)
4. Email and send favorite items in one go [PowerSearch] (1 min 30 sec)

Search & Research are different ¹. As developing scholars, you will need to do both.

• Know the answer or have a "hoped for answer"? = Search
  • How many "left behind" children are there in China
• Don't know the answer; not sure of the question? = Research
  • What are the factors that lead "left behind" rural children in China have better or worse educational outcomes than those living with parents?
     

1. Wilkinson, Lane. (2014, July 15). Is research inquiry? [blog post] . Retrieved from: https://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/is-research-inquiry/

Scholarship as an activity = thinking systematically

• Systematic questioning
• Searching
• Looking  deep and long =  Scrutinizing -   詳細地檢查

Integration (making intellectual connections) between  ideas, theories, & experience = key to good scholarship

• Applying a method from one area to another
• Place a situation or phenomenon into larger theoretical framework
  • Drawing elements from different theories into a synthesis
  • Make new insight
• Re-examine existing knowledge based on new or more recent development

(Hart 1998, p 8-9)

Things to think about...

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man [sic] will turn over half a library to make one book.”

― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2  by John Boswell - (Project Gutenberg edition)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and the backs of books in libraries.' 

― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2  by John Boswell - (Project Gutenberg edition)

Sourced from here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22191.Samuel_Johnson