Like Driving a Car – Research Skills

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created by Holly Ashbourne (@hashbourne)

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Conducting effective research can be likened to driving a car. Going through the process from establishing your research question/topic, to selecting what resources to include in your assignment based on certain criteria, can become second-nature after you have some experience. Some students tend to think that it is a quick process, plug something into Google and what they need will pop out. Careful, critical research takes a bit more time. It isn’t something easily done the night before an assignment is due. Learning the component skills of this process do help students to master this and can also make them faster, better researchers.