Assignment 22

I have never done an original research before.

I think what makes original research different from a library research is that, with a library research; the material is material from another research that was conducted by someone else. While original research would be someone else's original knowledge/material.

The library research guides original research in that it gives the researcher an idea on what to pay attention to or look at.

The pros of library research are that, the information is there for you to use as oppose to going out to look for the information yourself. On the other hand its cons are people and things change all the time. So information is always updated. But the library materials are materials that have already been done and completed. Hence might not be too current.

While with an original research the material is more current. But it could be very expensive too and time consuming.

I think the critical thinking skills involved in both types of research include observation, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, explanation and maybe inference and a little bit of Meta-cognition. 

For me the most important critical thinking skill for library research is analysis. Because one has to be able to analyze the data collected to know what to use.

For an original research, interpretation and conclusion. One should be able to interpret the information gotten and make appropriate conclusions as to what to use.

Assignment 20

The success I am having right now is that, whenever I try to look up something on my research topic, it is not so difficult for me to find it. On other hand, knowing what to use and what to include in the power point or what not to include makes it a little bit difficult. Because I usually get a lot of information.
For my classes and other researches, most of them include a lot of writing papers, and doing some research assigments every week. So trying to put everything together makes it a little bit difficult as I am also working on my research for this class. Sometimes with some of my classes trying to find exactly what you are looking for is really hard as one website tells you something and the other website tells you another. But one has to always make sure s/he has the right information.

Assignment 19

I found some statistical information about my research. And yes each resource indicates how the data was collected and/or analyzed.

I think they did so because they wanted readers too understand the table/chart when they look at it. And also to explain how they arrived at their conclusions.

 

Here Are my resources:

1.  Belville, Russ. April 15, 20009. Who are you? US Government Statistics on Adult Marijuana Users. Cannabis Culture Magazine. www.cannabisculture.com

2. NeuroImage. Vol. 41, Issue 3, pages 1067-1078. Corpus Callosum Damage in Heavy Marijuana use