Ok, ok. I get it. Research does not have the most interesting connotation.
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The only thing is, research doesn’t have to be the boring process many people think it is. Michael Kleine, a research researching about research (i know, inception), talks about going to a library and knowing right away that the students were writing a research paper because “the students… were transcribing sections of encyclopedia text into the text of their own writing, into notebooks”.
I often find that when I am doing research, it is simply me getting information and then trying to find another way to phrase it. Mr. Kleine also had that problem, which is why he tried to find a solution.
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He came up with a hunter/gatherer strategy. He found that many people just find information and don’t know how to actually use it. In his words: “A hunter finds what he is looking for; a gatherer discovers that which might be of use”.
I find this a really great analogy. Research is an extensive process, and one find a lot of stuff (which is the hunter), but that research also must be relevant (which is the gatherers job).
This research method is a good solution to just the normal “linear process”. While I have yet to try it out, I have a research paper in English due soon, so readers, I will try it out and get back to you 🙂