Best Ways to Do Research – Become a Master of Research

Everything that you do or start learning, requires some consistency. Even learning can be better, which is precisely why you should work on your research skills. Optimizing your research and learning means that you will have more time to practice the things you want to learn or have more free time, which is always pleasant.

Learn to Use Search Engines Properly

Since we are living in a world where getting an answer requires you only to type or to talk into a microphone, learning how to use search engines will help you immensely. Every search engine has some advanced commands which you can use, which often require nothing than adding a couple of things like quotes or a semicolon or a couple of words to exclude or include or limit your search to something specific. All of this can help you find your results better, which leads to filtering.

Filter Your Results – Not Everything is Useful

Today, some sites get their content to the front page of a search engine through advertising campaigns, more often than they do through content. Searching for some band, you are more likely to find their Wikipedia page, their page on Discogs before finding their own site.

Likewise, when you are searching for something important, let’s say you want to learn more about nutrition you should be mindful of the sites which are on the first, second, third or any other page. If you want to get serious about research, you need to learn which results to discard. Turning to scholarly articles, theses, actual research and studies can help you find concrete results, rather than vague advice on how to eat or what to eat, following the previous example.

Cross-Reference Your Information

If you can find multiple sources for your subject of research, you will definitely do much better than trusting a single source. Multiple sources are likely to give you more information on the topic at hand and confirm or help you discard what isn’t needed. The more sources you have, the more you can filter out what is bogus information and what are actual facts.

Take Care of Yourself

Your research skills will suffer if you do not take good care of yourself. You will then be unlikely to learn or remember anything and will be prone to making more mistakes. If you can, create your own routines, for working and sleeping. The human body loves a schedule, but it can also be trained to remember things which are unhealthy, like improper exercise forms.

Also have in mind that you are only human, and that none of us are born disciplined, that it is something which has to be practiced on a daily basis, rather than achieved through desire or thoughts.

 

Follow these tips to get better at research but remember to stop and smell the fresh air, as all the research of this world, all the data will do you no good if you end up tired, broken and unable to use it. And remember to have fun while learning, that can help you overcome almost any obstacle.