Thursday, September 2, 2010

Scientific Research Cycle??

One of the graduate students came to me and asked, "Have you heard SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CYCLE?" - Well I have to admit that this is the first time I have this "academic question." Since I do not know what he exactly asked for, I told him come back after his class.

Here is what I found out via research methodology books and resources. Scientific cycle has seven steps:

(1) Choose topic
(2) Focus research question
(3) Design study
(4) Collect data
(5) Analyse data
(6) Interpret data
(7) Inform other (particularly the scientific community)

It's certainly a benefit to be a librarian. - have so many opportunities to learn on a daily basis!!

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