1. Begin by creating a list of five to seven questions and strategies you will use to critically read research articles for your dissertation.
2. List only two potential topics (My topic: Resiliency of English Learners in learning)
Second topic could be similar.
3. Use as a guide, library resource Organizing Research to compare the different reference management or filing systems you could use for your searches. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of each? Based on your analysis of these systems, which do you think will be the best fit for you as you begin to review the literature and why? Write a 2- to 3-page response evaluating each system, including which one you chose and how you foresee this system helping you as you continue with your academic career.
Organizing Research & Citations
Organizing your scholarly articles and other research material may be as simple as saving those document files to your computer and placing them into clearly organized folders. Others may prefer to print out hard copies of your articles and file them in physical file folders.
The Library provides additional approaches to organizing your research materials, as described in this guide. Regardless of which method you choose, organizing your research is a crucial step in the overall research process. By organizing your research material you will be able to: easily retrieve your sources now and in the future; group similar sources together; and possibly identify potential patterns or links within your research topic.
Organizing Research and Citations FAQs
