Skills for Higher Education: Research, Evaluation, and Use Assignment

This assignment, completed for the Skills for Higher Education module (MOD006960), delves into the critical aspects of academic research. The student explores the process of identifying and utilizing reliable sources, emphasizing the importance of keyword selection within digital libraries like Google Scholar. The assignment covers evaluating sources for objectivity and relevance, including journal articles, and applying research findings effectively. It highlights the significance of networking with peers and staying updated in the field. The conclusion underscores the challenges and rewards of research, emphasizing the continuous improvement of research skills through practice. The student also provides a comprehensive list of references.

Module Title: Skills for Higher Education
Module Code: MOD006960
Word Count: 897

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
The Search..................................................................................................................................4
The Evaluation...........................................................................................................................5
The Use......................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Research skills refer to the ability of a person to look for, detect, collect, select, explain and
present information that is properly relevant to a specific topic. To maximize skills in
research work, finding a suitable source is important. How to use the source and the data
from that source, what they say inside that source and how to manipulate them is matter of
practice and review. In this module I have included several dimension about digital library
and its database, selecting keywords, description of reliable sources information and how to
use them properly. (Cutcliffe and Ward, 2014)

The Search
Search for academic research, a special type of research, the process of incorporating
comprehensive and analytical research into a research field. It helps us to identify a problem
and collect accurate information from a reliable source to solve identified problems.
Keywords refers to the search title, are the one or group of words that we get into the data
storage search boxes. Those words represent the main idea of our research topic .They are the
words those used in our daily life to express the topic. For doing this task my keyword were,
“how to create and use proper practice of networking”. The main purpose of networking is to
gather and share information by using social networking with friends, group mate,
researchers’, teachers. (Blasco et al., 2012)
To find out the exact academic or reliable sources to research I took the help of Search
Engine which generally called digital library. A digital library means an online collection or
field of information or database. It is said to be also called internet library. Here I have used
Google scholar to find my search. Google Scholar bears a simple process to widely search for
scholastic literature. It searches across a broad diversity of sources such as articles, theses.
Selecting the source from the list that came up was a quite tough task to me .Because all of
the source were credible according to my purpose. At first I found a source that is fully
relevant to my point, may give a standpoint summery of the important information. Then I
review about the objectivity- is the source is biased or not. How up to date the source was and
who was the author or creator. (Gottinger, 2017)

The Evaluation
The title of source is the second central item in the works entry. The title of the source is The
Online Research Skills that Students Need. This source is a form of Journal articles. A
journal article refers to a short writing than book and discussed about a particular topic.
I have found this source from online library database. From this source, I came to know about
the information what every student needs to do a personal research in student life.
Investigating the reliable sources and evaluation of the sources of its rationality and accuracy.
Ask and develop search questions to get better research results. A good and relevant
questioners plays a vital role to do research skills. To complete a task or a work progress, we
can take an advantage from going behind the surface. It means to do something or acquire
something else more from outside of the main topic or research. In a research work task
keeping patience is very important. The title also told that to admire the rights of the creators
or producers.
The article was published and accessed in 24 November, 2021.
Figure: Research Skill
Source: (Research Skills: What They Are and Why They're Important ..., n.d.)
In this article the writer or the author uses some information from other sources and use those
references and citation .It seems there doesn’t exist any pirated information or plagiarisms.
Reading and analysing this source, I think it is quite reliable source. The information

provided by this source is also relative to academic purpose. (The 6 Online Research Skills
Your Students Need | Scholastic, 2021)
The Use
To get answers of the questions I need to study the whole source’s topic. In this source the
given topic was research skill which are need to know. To answer the question I have to
explain,
I have to start with the topic that direct the prompt
If started promptly to assess the source's usefulness, I have to begin with phrasal expression
as like, “This source tells or describe or explain us about to check the source properly and
find out the exact ideas and thought. This source is quite functional because it demonstrates
all the perspectives for doing proper analysis of the task. Such as, making good
questionnaires. I want to evaluate my skills practice going outside of the topic and gather
information related to the research. And to build a proper network I need to keep up to date
myself with my peers, teammate. (Columbus, 2009)

Conclusion
Briefly I want to express that doing a researching work is quite interesting and much
complicated too. Because proper time management is a matter of think as it takes time to find
out the credible sources and bring out the answers of the questions. From the beginning,
searching, evaluating and using of the sources’ material and finding the meaning of them
helps me to attain more skill on research .The more we will practice , the more we enhance
our store of knowledge. (Research Skills Development | Research and Innovation, 2021)

References
Blasco, S., Bruquetas, R., Calvo Manuel, A., Eyb-Green, S., Fuertes, H., García Fernández-
Villa, S., Gasol, R., Krekel, C., Miguel, C., Nualart Torroja, A., San Andrés Moya, M. and
Seruya, A., 2012. The artist's process. London: Archetype.
Columbus, A., 2009. Advances in psychology research. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Science.
Cutcliffe, J. and Ward, M., 2014. Critiquing nursing research. Luton: Andrews UK.
Gottinger, H., 2017. Open Source Technologies. Advances in Social Sciences Research
Journal, 4(7).
n.d. Research Skills: What They Are and Why They're Important .... [online] Available at:
<https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/guide/research-skills/> [Accessed 2021].
Research.uoregon.edu. 2021. Research Skills Development | Research and Innovation.
[online] Available at: <https://research.uoregon.edu/plan/undergraduate-research/resources/
research-skills-development> [Accessed 24 November 2021].
Scholastic.com. 2021. The 6 Online Research Skills Your Students Need | Scholastic. [online]
Available at: <https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/6-online-
research-skills-your-students-need/> [Accessed 24 November 2021].