Today, we talked about several issues that came up during the meeting with Karen, Ravi and Dana yesterday of several groups, including mine.
First of all, Karen talked about the difference of being inductive and deductive when it comes to researching. To be honest, I was a little inductive when I first started to do my research. I had the tendency to phrase my research terms to be something that will result in articles that are supportive of my hypothesis. However, as I do more and more research, I realized that if everything was supportive of my hypothesis, then what the point of me doing a research since I already have the answer? Now, I tried to focus on the reliability of the source rather than how supportive it is to my research.
Karen also talked about keep on doing our research. The list of sources in the final paper needs to be significantly longer than the one in our long proposal. Our group in particular needs to increase our literature review.
During our research, we also need to strategize the way we read scholarly journal. First, we need to read the abstract. After the abstract, the next section that we can look at is the introduction. The last but not the least would be the conclusion. This is the section that you would want to read as throughoutly as possible. That should help you with the scholarly journals that are 35 pages...