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Research Overview

Research Overview. Following the Billy Trail. Remember recursive ?. 1 Plan. 2 Draft. 3 Revise. 4 Polish. Research is recursive too. 1 Plan. 2 Draft. 3 Revise. 4 Polish. Research can be Billy trail. Let yourself explore.

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Research Overview

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  1. Research Overview Following the Billy Trail

  2. Remember recursive? 1 Plan 2 Draft 3 Revise 4 Polish

  3. Research is recursive too. 1 Plan 2 Draft 3 Revise 4 Polish

  4. Research can be Billy trail

  5. Let yourself explore “[Writing] is an act of discovery. If I knew everything …beforehand I would be bored sick and never keep writing.” –Natalie Goldberg

  6. Let yourself explore Name Distraction Goal Contradiction Initial topic idea CSI effect? New angle

  7. Serendipity is your friend Goal world’s leading authority

  8. Paper: You + Sources A research paper is a record of intelligent reading in several sources on a particular subject. • Which is best? • Is this really true? • Can these ideas be combined? • What’s the latest? • How can you tell the difference? • Why do things happen this way? • How could thingsbe made better?

  9. Why read what they know? You’ll be up-to-date. “Ninety percent of what we know about Alzheimer’s has been discovered in the last 15 years.”(A. Riesenberg, as cited in “Health Questions,” 2007)

  10. You’ll see the whole picture. “An estimated 5 to 15 percent of people with anorexia or bulimia are male.”(National Institutes of Mental Health, 2007) “In certain overachieving circles, breast-feeding…is the ultimate badge of responsible parenting. Yet the actual health benefits of breast feeding are…far thinner than the popular literature indicates.”(Rosin, 2009)

  11. You may be surprised. Nicotine hit could slow recovery from PTSD Reaching for a cigarette to cope with a flashback is all too common among sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. The nicotine hit may feel good but scientists say its brain action probably makes their PTSD worse in the long run (“Nicotine,” 2009).

  12. You’ll find new connections. The surprise is not merely that sleep matters but how much it matters… to phenomena that we assumed to be entirely unrelated such as the international obesity epidemic and the rise of ADHD. A few scientists theorize that sleep problems during formative years can cause permanent changes in a child’s brain structure….It’s even possible that many of the hallmark characteristics of being a tweener and teen—moodiness, depression, and even binge eating— are actually just symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation. (Bronson, 2007)

  13. You may find new insights. How is violence like a virus? As CeaseFire evolved, Slutkin says he started to realize how much it was drawing on his experiences fighting TB and AIDS. “….Treatment of the most infectious spreaders is the most effective strategy known and now accepted in the world.” …In the case of violence, you use those who were once hard-core, once the most belligerent, once the most uncontrollable, once the angriest.

  14. You might find a solution Surgery checklist found to save lives Scrawl on the patient with a permanent marker to show where the surgeon should cut…. Count sponges…. Doctors worldwide who followed a checklist of [19] steps like these cut the death rate from surgery almost in half and complications by more than a third. …[Implementing] the longer checklist in all U.S. operating rooms would save at least $15 billion a year.

  15. You might debunk a myth. What “everybody knows” may not be true. Reboot your brain with a caffeine nap 1. Right before you crash, down a cup of java. The caffeine has to travel through your gastro-intestinal tract, giving you time to nap before it kicks in. 2. Close your eyes and relax. Even if you only doze, you'll get what's known as effective microsleep, or momentary lapses of wakefulness. 3. Limit your nap to 15 minutes [to avoid] sleep inertia…The brain's prefrontal cortex…can take 30 minutes to reboot.

  16. Your view may be challenged. Does Prison Harden Inmates? Chen and Shapiro’s 2003 findings “cast grave doubt on at least one model of deterrence, which holds that a few years of grim prison conditions will spook criminals back onto the straight and narrow. Whatever the deterrent effects of hard prison conditions, the authors conclude, they may often be outweighted by the increased criminal propensities of the prisoners subject to them” (p. 33).

  17. You’ll be credible. “Lancaster, England,…is arguably the capital of survivor studies. This is where John Leach teaches and writes papers cited in almost every important study of survival” (Sherwood, 2009, p. 45).

  18. Why read what they know? Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.—Woody Allen

  19. What’s out there?

  20. How do you find experts? They cite objective evidence or expert opinion. I am the mother of five children, so I am aware of the importance of watching what my children do online. • Youth who engaged in four or more risky online behaviors were much more likely to report receiving online sexual solicitations. The online risky behaviors included • maintaining buddy lists that includedstrangers • discussing sex online with people they did not know in person • being rude or nasty online • “Internet Predator Stereotypes Debunked in New Study,” 2008[APA press release]

  21. Experts cite sources. • Check out www.cosmeticscop.com • What are her sources? Two ingredients almost universally added to cosmetics, fragrance and preservatives are often thought to be the major culprits when our skin has an allergic or sensitizing reaction to a cosmetic (Source: Contact Dermatitis, June 1999, pages 310–315).

  22. They are cited as sources.

  23. Experts have a reputation. They are described as • experts • pioneers • founder of the field of…. “Dr. Piers Steel is probably the world’s foremost expert on the subject of putting off until tomorrow what should be done today” (“We’re,” 2007). Sam Gosling is an author and associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a nationally regarded researcher and innovator in the field of personality and social psychology.

  24. They are Alpha roosters. • Professional literature • Peer-reviewed journals • Professional associations • Respected sources • Harvard Business Review • National Institutes of Health • Expert opinion • Professional training • Reputation • Seminal thinkers • H. Gardner—multiple intelligences • M. Seligman—happiness, learned helplessness • J. M. Burns—leadership • Gosling—animal psychology GroopmanHow Doctors Think (2007)

  25. Where are the experts?

  26. They are searchable.

  27. They are searchable.

  28. Find keywords.

  29. Use keywords. Keyword(s) Results autism: 3,100,000 + research: 1,800,000+ causes: 486,000 + genetic: 180,000 + mirror: 35,100 +”mirror 6,800 neurons: - mercury 4,910

  30. They are searchable.

  31. They are in scholarly sources. • EBSCO • Google Scholar • FindArticles.com • omnimedicalsearch.com (MedPro tab) • Infomine

  32. scholar.google.com

  33. Findarticles.com

  34. Correct Current Credible Complete Critical Can you trust this source?

  35. Cross-check Tips for correct sources Benson is frequently cited by tax protesters, and many people have been fined or convicted for relying on his claims. See, for example, United States v. Thomas, 788 F.2d 1250 (7th Cir. 1986), cert. den. 107 S.Ct. 187 (1986). More recently, Charles E. Hughes, of Dansville, Michigan, who had purchased Benson's "16th Amendment Defense Reliance Package," was convicted of four counts of tax evasion and sentenced to 15 months in prison.

  36. Search by date range In EBSCO, use limiters On web, use whonu.com Tips for current sources

  37. Look for evidence of bias Tips for complete/critical

  38. results for “stem cell research” from clusty.com Skimming for 5Cs Components of URL http://www.stemcellresearch.org/statement/index.html HOST PATH DOCUMENT

  39. results for “stem cell research” from google.com Skimming for 5Cs

  40. Wiki: a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content What about Wikipedia?

  41. Not credible enough for middle schoolers What about Wikipedia? "What's more disconcerting is that Anderson was relying so heavily on Wikipedia for his information in the first place; even middle-school book-reports shouldn't be crafted with ancillary information from that site. Confoundingly, many of the passages that appear lifted were readily-available definitions of terms that would appear in more credible reference books like the Oxford English Dictionary.”

  42. Credibility is being tightened What about Wikipedia?

  43. Directly: no Indirectly: yes Overview References External links Can I use Wikipedia?

  44. ADHD Follow external links

  45. Get close to original

  46. Check related topics

  47. Look for connections

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