Research process cooking 2014
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The document compares writing a research paper to cooking a dish, noting that both require finding quality sources, taking notes to break sources into manageable pieces, outlining to combine pieces, and writing a final paper or cooking a dish that brings together individual elements. It emphasizes beginning with good sources, such as database articles, books, and websites, and suggests starting with general references and then using scholarly journal articles.
Research process cooking 2014
- 1. Cooking up a Research Paper
- 2. Research is a process, Your Description Goes Here just like cooking. 1. Find quality ingredients (sources) 2. Chop them into manageable pieces (take notes) 3. Figure out how to combine and incorporate them into a dish (outline) 4. Produce and serve a finished dish that transcends the individual ingredients and becomes its own unique product (write a paper) Sometimes we experiment with a recipe, figure out its not what we thought it would be, and go back to the beginning to try something different. This is also part of the process.
- 3. It all begins with good ingredients. Your Description Goes Here DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR INGREDIENTS ARE? Database articles. Books. Web sites.
- 5. What is a database? In laymans terms: a database is just a container full of information that you can search. It can hold a lot of different types of sources.
- 6. Suggested starting points Get a feel for your topic with general reference material Then dig in with scholarly journal articles
- 7. Now that we have our ingredients, we need tools to help us use them.