Thursday, February 2, 2012

Methods, Methodologies, and Skills

Methods- Research methods are concerned with how you carry out your research. The choice of the method will depend on the kind of research one wants to conduct.

Methodologies- Unlike research methods, methodologies are concerned with the perspectives you bring to bear on your work. Different people bring different perspectives on their analysis of a given text.

Skills- Research skills are techniques for handling material. For example, there are many different skills that one must acquire for postgraduate work in English.
Some of these skills are: 1. search skills in libraries 2. editorial skills 3. bibliographic skills 4. dissertation skills 5. IT skills 6. period-specific skills and lastly 7. professional skills

Overall, a person's methods, methodologies, and skills will probably be different for whatever type of research they will be conducting. The above factors will depend on the research they are conducting because they might have to tweak the way they conduct research depending on what they are researching. Also, the way a person researches can change if they are working with other people because no ones way of conducting research is the same.

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