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Social Research

-Remember knowledge from agreement reality?-Social research as a body of knowledge received from experts-generally dry and devoid of fun

-Jargon-filled-Reading and understanding social research takes practice. Frequent exposure to scholarly workis a process of socialization. he pro!erbial curtain is thus drawn.

"hat has been done# how it was done# what is to be done and what is not yet known can be foundfrom reading the work of a particular research community

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Re*ding schol*rly liter*ture is di+erent rom re*ding other or-s, such *s noels.

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Journals !s. $ooks

abstractA summary of a research article. The abstract usually begins the article and states the purposeof the research, the methods used, and the major findings.

Two main purposes:1. it gies you * good ide* *s to hether youll *nt

to re*d the rest o the *rticle. 2 youre reieingthe liter*ture or * #*#er youre riting, the *0str*cttells you hether th*t #*rticul*r *rticle is rele*nt.

3. the *0str*ct est*0lishes * r*meor- ithinhich to re*d the rest o the *rticle. 2t m*y r*ise4uestions in your mind reg*rding method or conclusions,

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there0y cre*ting *n *gend* to #ursue in your re*ding.

research monograph 0oo-'length rese*rch re#ort, either #u0lished or un#u0lished. /hisis distinguished rom * te5t0oo-, * 0oo- o ess*ys, * noel, *nd so orth.

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Using the Internet Wisely

Some Useful Websites

Searching the Web

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