Tips to do towards nice, comphensive and better research

To help everyone get up to speed on the basic research skills, here’s some tips to help you find, organize, and use the information you need to put together in a decent research paper. Or when you do on a research proposals.

1.Schedule.
the first step in writing a research paper is to admit that you have a research paper. Write up a schedule with a series of milestones to accomplish by a specific date and time. Find out what’s in your library, select relevant material, read it, take a notes, and start putting it all together to have your first draft.

2.Start, don’t end, with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia.org is a great website of information to start your research so spend some time searching for those keywords that are related to your topic.Browse well and click those links you find on each page, and following their suggested resources. Take up a notes, especially of any good sources they recommend.

3.Mine bibliographies.
Once you have found a good and solid academic book or essay on your topic, you’re golden. At the end there will be a list of dozens or hundreds of sources for you to look up. You can usually skim through the bibliography and write down anything you think that is relevant to your research.

4.Have a research question in mind.
This is important in every research, you need to find a question regarding to your reseacrh. As you come across new material, ask yourself if it looks like it will help you answer your question.Technically speaking, your thesis should emerge from your research, when you have data in front of you. But you need a some kind of “working thesis” while doing your research, a question you have want to answer.

5.Deal with one piece at a time.
Get enough of a sense of the topic that you can create an outline of the things you need to understand, and then deal with each piece on its own. Then You’ll find the connections between the pieces when you write your first draft.

6.Use a system.
Start your research with an idea of how you plan to collect and organize your notes and data. You may use notebooks or any resources and make sure that every quote, fact, and thought is tied in some way to its source so that you can easily insert references while you’re writing.

7.Know your resources.
Spend some time getting to know what resources, both online and offline, your library to offer. Get to know the research material you can access from home.

8.Ask for help.
You can use the human resources available to you as well as the material resources. You may ask your professor in their free time in prder to help you and or your librarian as well.

9.Carry an idea book.
As you start really getting into your project, your mind will start churning through what you’re reading, even when you’re not consciously working on it. Keep a small notebook and a pen with you everywhere then write down whats in your mind.

10.Bring it up to date.
Pay attention to the publication date of your materials, while if it’s ok to use an older material, ideally you’d like the bulk of your references to come from the last 10 years or so. Google the major researchers whose work you’ve found and see if you can find their homepages.

I hope that these steps can help everyone when they do a technical research.