Assignment 22: Original Research

I had never done original research before now.  So far, what I have learned is that it is a bit more difficult because you have to go much more in depth on the topic.  Library research kind of prepared me for original research but not as much as you would hope. Library research is much more straight forward, takes less time, and the information you are looking for is much easier to find.  Critical thinking is required for both types of research but I think you need to be more critical when doing library research because a lot of the information you find can be incorrect or misleading. In library research it is most important to be able to decide what information is useful and which information is faulty.  With original research it is most important to have skills that help you form a search string and to know what words will work best for keywords.