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February 3, 2014
Organisation Three Passes Literature References
Question
Research Problem: What to find ?
Answer
Precise answer to the question, of what was found.
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Observation Communicate
Question
The Scientific Method
Y
Literature Hypothesis 1 Prediction 1 Test 1 ? Communicate
Y
Literature Hypothesis 2 Prediction 2 Test 2 ? Communicate
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3 Literature Survey
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Organisation of a Paper
Observation
Significance
Problem
Result
Broder Implication
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Clarity of a Question
Problem
Topic : Name/Area/Title
Question : Who/What/Where/When/Why/How ?
Practical or Conceptual Significance : So What ? For
understanding What ?
1 The authors have studied (topic)
2 because they wanted to find out
(why/what/how)
3 in order to understand (significance)
The authors have studied Martian landscapes because they
wanted to find out what some dark markings on the surface
images were, in order to understand the surface chemistry and
physics.
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Clarity of a Question
Problem
Topic : Name/Area/Title
Question : Who/What/Where/When/Why/How ?
Practical or Conceptual Significance : So What ? For
understanding What ?
1 The authors have studied (topic)
2 because they wanted to find out
(why/what/how)
3 in order to understand (significance)
The authors have studied Martian landscapes because they
wanted to find out what some dark markings on the surface
images were, in order to understand the surface chemistry and
physics.
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Organisation Three Passes Literature References
Clarity of a Question
Problem
Topic : Name/Area/Title
Question : Who/What/Where/When/Why/How ?
Practical or Conceptual Significance : So What ? For
understanding What ?
1 The authors have studied (topic)
2 because they wanted to find out
(why/what/how)
3 in order to understand (significance)
The authors have studied Martian landscapes because they
wanted to find out what some dark markings on the surface
images were, in order to understand the surface chemistry and
physics.
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Clarity of an Answer
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Clarity of an Answer
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Clarity of an Answer
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Memorise This!
Question
TQS: Topic, Question, Significance
Answer
CRE: Claim, Reason, Evidence
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Nature/Science Podcasts
News and Views
Read the actual article
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Starting Points
Keywords Search
Problem description statement
Article/Report given to you
Author search
Advisor: Ask, Validate your list
Search Resources
SCOPUS (for general search)
ISI Web of Knowledge and Citebase (citation searches)
Engineering Village Compendex and Inspec (general
search)
Google Scholar, Yahoo Mindset (for web search of scholarly
articles)
Patents search (Google, Free-Patents, Scopus Patents Tab)
Wikipedia, Google, may be used to get broad ideas but
cannot yet be considered authoritative search.
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DOI
Topic
Notes
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Bibliography
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