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Research as a Conversation: Getting Started
Getting Started
Planning Ahead
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Choosing a Topic
Choosing a Conversation Group
Listening to the Conversation
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Knowing Their Words
Using Search Skills/Tools to Find What They Say
Understanding the Conversation
Making Your Own Discoveries & Conclusions
Sharing Your Discoveries & Conclusions
Research Is Like a Conversation
We learn by exchanging ideas with others and
systematically
discovering and studying those ideas
with them.
Research as a Conversation Includes:
Planning Ahead
- showing initiative and resourcefulness and choosing a topic
Choosing a Conversation Group
- recognizing people who are qualified to talk about a topic
Listening to the Conversation
– getting access to conversations on our topic by qualified people
Understanding the Conservation
- understanding what we hear about our topic from qualified people
Making Your Own Discoveries and Conclusions
- putting ideas together and making inferences from what we hear
Sharing Your Discoveries and Conclusions
- reflecting upon your research and discoveries and sharing them with others
Cycle of Research
You may need to do these actions over and over before you finish.
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