FIVE OTHER SUGGESTIONS ABOUT EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT RESEARCH
Here are some additional suggestions in the following five areas of the research phase:
Variety of sources
Availability of information
Minimal photocopying and printing
Being organized
Writing
Variety of Sources
It’s not just that you need to have several sources—you need to have several different kinds of sources.
One reason is that every kind has its limits. Books are marvelous storehouses of ideas that probably will never make it to the Internet, but the data they contain is inevitably older than what you’d find in current periodicals and on the Internet. Periodical articles are much more current, but they’re very uneven in quality and reliability. And the Internet itself—ah, the ...
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