Learning basic research skills will be critical to your success, not only during your college career, but also after you graduate. Whatever your ultimate profession, it will undoubtedly require continual updating of skills and knowledge.
And, in your personal life, knowing how to find and evaluate information will be critical when doing things like researching elder care for aging parents, making decisions about children, choosing where to live and work, and making important health care decisions.
Take the time now to build the skills that will last you a lifetime.
"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
Brian Tracy
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
Zora Neale Hurston
Research does more than earn you good grades. It's what stands between you and success in more than college. Being armed with the correct information is your best way forward.
Check out the video below to see why you need to do your own research - and not rely on second hand information.
Provided by "College Humor."
Research Skill #1:
How to approach your research, identify the steps involved and organize your time accordingly. Use the research calculators and the WCSU LibGuide on the Basics of Library Research on the left side of this page to learn how to break your research down into approachable tasks. The calculators will help you identify each step and organize your time in such a way that you won't find yourself in a panic as the deadline approaches.
Grammar Police
