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Verification Junkie. Resource of the month | biblioTECH. Refworks. Research Tips: How I Search for Information | OHIO University Libraries. Ed note: We know November means that we’re approaching the end of the semester and many of you will be working on research projects. In light of this time of the semester, and that November has become known as both National Novel Writing Month and Academic Writing Month, we’re bringing you a couple of posts this month with our favorite research tips to help you get to writing that research paper.

We’d love to hear your favorite research and writing tips. Please share them with us on Twitter (@AldenLibrary) or Facebook. Be sure to also check out our Writing Tips Pinboard. One of the early steps in writing an article or paper is researching for information. Determine what has already been done,find gaps in knowledge on the topic,provide background or contextual information, andsupport our findings and/or insights.

Regardless of whether we are searching for articles on a specific topic or for one particular article or paper, there are similar tools and techniques we can employ. The use of OER for research methods teaching in social science and education. This is a SCORE funded project which explores ways of enhancing practice in research methods teaching through the use of open educational resources. The project is multidisciplinary and involves perspectives from three different disciplines (Sociology, Education and Criminology) on how OER can be utilised more effectively in research teaching. The content shared here is intended for the tutors participating in the project, who are invited to view and evaluate the resources from the point of view of whether and how they can embed these in teaching practice.

Any comments are welcome however. The aim is to understand whether the OER content included here is flexible enough to adapt to the subject areas of education, sociology and criminology. Can the same content be adapted for use at different levels (undergraduate, postgraduate)? Can this content provide opportunities for multi-disciplinary collaboration and idea exchange? Extra content The experiment (video file). Action research. Outsell Inc. - The world's only research and advisory firm focused solely on media, information, and technology. Internet Catalogue.