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Effective Research Methods Overview

Enhance your research skills by learning topics like selecting ideal information sources, finding aids, conducting precise searches, and evaluating resources through various methods. Gain insights on news, publications, databases, search engines, and evaluation criteria.

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Effective Research Methods Overview

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  1. PLS 201: Research Methods Dr. JungkunSeo Ms. Sue Cody

  2. Topics for the Sessions • Selecting the right information sources • Selecting the right finding aids • Doing a better search • Availability of resources • Evaluating resources • Citing Sources

  3. Selecting the right information sources • News/Opinion or Scholarly Analysis? • Current or Historical? • Primary or Secondary? • Publications or Data?

  4. Selecting the right finding aids • Database Scope • Bibliographic or Data? • Publication Types and Numbers • Subjects • Time period (publication or subject) • Search Engine / Structure • Abstract or Full-text search • Special Limit features

  5. Doing a better search • AND, OR, NOT • AND narrows • Third parties AND presidential elections • OR adds synonyms/related (OR is More) • Third parties OR Third party OR Tea party • NOT excludes (use carefully) • Truncate for word variations • (presiden* = presidency, president, presidents, presidential) • Words anywhere or phrase? • “Third parties” • Field-specific searching, e.g., Title, Descriptor/Subject

  6. Availability of Resources • Links from databases • “Have a Citation? Looking for a Journal” • Library Catalog and WorldCat • Interlibrary Loan

  7. Do we have? • Halper, Stefan. 2011. “President Obama at Mid-Term” International Affiars87:1-11. • Perry, Glenn E. 2011. “Taking Tea Parties Seriously: Corporate Globalization, Populism, and Resentment.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 10:11-29. • Schraufnagel, Scot. 2011. Third Party Blues: The Truth and Consequences of Two-party Dominance. New York: Routledge. • Rosenstone, Steven J. 1984. Third Parties in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  8. Evaluating Resources • Authority • Scope • Purpose • Persuade or describe? • Audience • Accuracy • Current? Does it matter? • CRITIC Model • Evaluating News Magazines

  9. Assignment • Answer 6 basic questions • Pick 2 databases (1 from each column) • Explore the scope of database • Practice searching – use: • AND OR • Truncation (*), • “quotes for phrases” • Due Monday

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