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Research Skills

Build practical understanding of questions, source discovery, credibility, notes, synthesis, citation, and research ethics, then use it for building an answer from reliable sources without losing provenance.

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School, university, and adult learning
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Learning outcomes
4 focused outcomes

Topic overview

Learn the foundations of Research Skills.

Research Skills connects questions, source discovery, credibility, notes, synthesis, citation, and research ethics with practical decisions and tasks. Guided examples, comparison, practice, and feedback help members apply these ideas to building an answer from reliable sources without losing provenance. The goal is to make each step easier to explain, check, and improve.

Learning outcomes for Research Skills

  1. 1

    Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in questions, source discovery, credibility, notes, synthesis, citation, and research ethics

  2. 2

    Follow a repeatable process for building an answer from reliable sources without losing provenance

  3. 3

    Compare examples, identify common mistakes, and improve an approach

  4. 4

    Complete an independent research skills task and reflect on the result

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How to learn Research Skills step by step.

01

Build the foundation

Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in questions, source discovery, credibility, notes, synthesis, citation, and research ethics

02

Practise with feedback

Follow a repeatable process for building an answer from reliable sources without losing provenance

03

Practise with feedback

Compare examples, identify common mistakes, and improve an approach

04

Apply and reflect

Complete an independent research skills task and reflect on the result

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