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Research Process These pages offer an introduction to the research process

at a very general level.

Home

Finding a Research Topic

Determining Information Needs

Scholarly Research

Preparing to Search

Reading a Scientific Article

Evaluating Information

Finding Similar Resources

Resources for a Literature Review

Resources for Dissertation

Scholarly Research

Once you have found a research topic of interest and developed

research questions, you are ready to begin conducting scholarly

research. Through your research, you will be exploring and addressing

the relationships between the variables in your hypothesis. During the

course of your research, you may find information that contradicts your

research statement. When this happens, you will want to try to find

more information that confirms or denies the contradictory information.

You may also determine that your original research question needs to

be revised. In this case, you can identify new concepts through

database searches, further examine the relationship between the

concepts, and review your search strategy to incorporate these new

concepts.

It may also be helpful to also maintain a log of previous database search results based on different search methods and modify them accordingly. Once you have answered your initial research question, you should not stop your research before determining if the original information need has been satisfied or if additional information is needed.

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