Research skills

Research  skills

• Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is accepting nothing at face value, but rather examining the truth and validity of arguments and evaluating the relative importance of ideas.

• Problem Solving

Problem solving is the ability to identify, define and analyze problems, to create solutions and evaluate them, and to choose the best solution for a particular context.

• Analysis

Analysis is the ability to gather relevant data and information and apply methods of synthesis, critical thinking and data reduction to locate and understand patterns or connections in that information. 

• Dissemination

Dissemination is communicating to others the purpose and outcomes of research.

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Sources of information

Information source

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• In mathematics, see the article Information source (mathematics).

"Source" means the origin of something. An information source is a source of information for somebody, i.e. anything that might inform a person about something or provide knowledge to somebody. Information sources may be observations, people, speeches, documents, pictures, organizations etc. They may be primary sources, secondary sources, tertiary sources and so on.
Different epistemologies have different views regarding the importance of different kinds of information sources. Empiricism regards sense data as the ultimate information sources, while other epistemologies have different views (cf., source criticism).

In Library and information science

Library and information science is a field devoted to help users find relevant information sources and to organize information.
Examples of works made in order to help users identify relevant information sources are:

• Adams, Stephen R. (2005). Information Sources in Patents. 2nd ed. K. G. Saur. (Guides to Information Sources)

• O'Hare, Christine (2007). Business Information Sources. Library Assn Pub Ltd.

• Stebbins, Leslie F. (2005). Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age: How to Locate and Evaluate Information Sources. Libraries Unlimited.

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what is a Mind map?

Mind map

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A hand-drawn mind map

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.
The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.
By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.
The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.

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what is information?

We use the term information technology or IT to refer to an entire industry. In actuality, information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary.

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