Traditional Research

In today’s society, the internet has made research more complex to conduct research. The internet gives us access to billions of information at our fingertips. Before the internet, the process of conducting research is long and very intensive. Students would have to locate information using their local or school library.

 In the past, researchers would go to the library to gather information on a subject. This process would often consist of communicating with a librarian, finding the card catalog, writing down serial numbers, walking up several flights of stairs to locate the particular source.

When we research a topic on the internet, there are billions of information at your disposal. The stock of knowledge is so wide that you have to analyze the information appropriately, and use your creativity to summarize, annotate, and interpret the information given. 

Wikipedia Research

Research is the creative and systematic work used to increase knowledge. The scientific study of research practices is known as meta-research. Meta science is the study of science. Also known as  “Research on research”. There are several forms of research: scientific, documentary, artistic, historical, etc.

Scientific research is a systematic way of gathering data and harnessing curiosity. This form of research provides scientific information and theories for the questions about nature and the properties of the world. Scientific research is a widely used standard for judging an academic institution. “Documentary research is the use of outside sources, documents, to support the viewpoint or argument of an academic work.” The process of document research involves forming an idea, using and analyzing documents.

The historical method consist of techniques and guidelines which historians use historical sources and other evidence to research and then to write history. There are many history guidelines that are commonly used by historians, under the headings of external criticism, internal criticism, and synthesis. This includes lower criticism and sensual criticism.