Research skills

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Research is mainly focus on the searching information carefully, with a method which is authentically approved by authentication (Adelaide, 2012) . It is wider than finding out a fact and more focused on reading  a subject book (Adelaide, 2012). There are many sources which is providing the facility for research for evrybody but also the finder should be inteligent enough to think whether this source is authentic or not with the reasons.

 Mnnit.ac (2012)

RSD Facets of Research
Research Skill Development is the long term for the RSD. There are six aspects of the research process, identified from the literature and modified according to Bloom’s taxonomy. 

According toAdelaide (2012), the five steps in Research are;

1. defining your research needs 

2. developing a research strategy using an  appropriate methodology

3. conducting searches for information (Evaluating the sources)

4. evaluating the resources you find from the library by analyse and apply new knowledge

5. incorporating and citing the information use

Cfcenter.stanford (2012)

Research Paper Life cycle

• W: Workshop position paper (4‐7 pages): Note that some workshop accepts full research paper,which shall be viewed as conference full paper
• C: Conference full paper (10 11pages)
• J: Journal paper (15‐20 pages): At least 30% new content over C       

                                                                                                           (People.engr.ncsu, 2012)

Important Research skills

• Self‐directed and motivated
• Problem solving skills
• Engineering skills
• Innovation skills
• Communication skills
• Learning skills        

                                                                                                           (People.engr.ncsu, 2012)

Identifying the tasks means planning

Effects of techno-stress on banking industry

Rehan (2012)

Class work

And the lecturer said to identify the tasks for the individual topics which the pupils got for the LFS assignment.

Social & Economic Impact on Digital Divide

1. What is  Digital Divide?
2. Social & Economic impact on Digital Divide
3. Use of Digital Divide presently and how to reduce this?

These are the areas which the author needed to focus  in the assignment for researching the information from various kinds of sources which is authentic.This help to save time while finding information and analyzing them in  an effective manner.

Library.mmu.ac (2012)

The following graph shows how the providers of research skills training for postgraduates by the number of institutes.The library staff and academic staff of has a highest demand where as others in HE. So the library and academic staff are helping the students to perform the research and to improve that skill.

gla.ac (2012)

The following figure illustrates the research culture where the people conduct the kinds of research for particular themes. The community do the research by going through the projects, seminar programs, reports to collect the information.






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Journals or periodicals
These contain the latest research for the current issues of any country. To use those information first users should review the abstract to identify relevant articles. And if the researcher refer to the journal articles its very important as this is proof enough to prove the point. Some of the examples are HBR, ACM, LEEE, LMD. To find a journal article researcher should need to know the title of the journal,published when and its volume number, article's author etc.


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Library
Excellent source of information where anyone can access or can visit in order to findout details about topics.

There  are some shelves full of millions of books where the reader should go to the right category 
and  choose to read them.

–academic journals

–Variety of textbooks

–specialist collections

–CDs, DVDs, films, tapes, slides, and video resources

–silent areas and study rooms

–support on how to use library facilities

http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/images/library_quiet_area.jpg

Reserve policy of the library
You are allowed to make up to 3 reservations at a time.On availability, you will be informed by e-mail
& it should be collected within 3 days.

Narrowing or extending your online search: Handling Too Many Items

•Using “AND” Operator

•Inverted commas (" ")

•Using “NOT” Operator

•Using “OR” Operator

•Truncation symbol (*)

•Wildcards (?)

Lending policy of the library

–Two books can be borrowed at a time for a student.

–Duration of borrowing

•      3 days - yellow tag
•      7 days - green tag
•      2 hours - red tag

Applicable fees (delay payments)

Three Day  One Week 2-4 hours

Rs.20/= for the 1st day and it will increase to Rs80/= to each addl. Overdue day Rs.5/= for each overdue day for a period of 7 days.  This will increase to Rs. 20/= per day for the next seven (7) days and to Rs. 50/= per day thereafter inclusive of public holidays and weekends. Rs 5 per hour