English Composition › Section M · The research process › Topic M.3
Key research skills
Good research is less a single talent than a set of skills used together: finding and recording information, thinking critically about it, combining it and managing the time it all takes. Knowing the set helps you see which skill a stuck project needs.
In this topic
- Research serves original thinking
- Worked example: three kinds of original contribution
- The skill set
- Critical analysis: parts and whole
- Critical thinking: fact, inference, opinion
- Worked example: sorting a source's statements
- Synthesis: thinking that ripples outwards
- Keeping track of sources
- Worked example: planning backwards
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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