What I think research is. Research is a use full tool to have as well, because it helps you find out more information about something or someone. I think research is good to have in memory because you can use it to prove people wrong if they think they know things about something or someone. Research is used in allot of things, like a famous persons history, essay's and book work for your self. Research can be provided to you in different ways like using the computer, reading books or people explaining what they know and shearing the information with you also, experiencing something can be part of research. The way I research is I find someone or something that I'm interested in and I collect a series of their work
and write about how it makes me feel and also find out the history about the artist. When it comes to research you could gain skills, like tracing an image that you like or copying that image of your choice
Research also comes with brainstorming for ideas to help plan what you need like a word bank, mind map and glossary Where I would look for my research would be in the library, Internet, movies and music. Doing readings is helpful for research because it has allot information about what the reading says, where their is a reading their are comment codes that help you find interesting facts or facts that are not interesting. Movies are useful when it comes to researching because it has allot of facts that are interesting, like I was to watch a super hero movie like the Avengers, that movie would tell me its based on a comic book from Marvel. With music artist like to sample music from other artist like New Zealand Hip Hop artist (PNC) he sampled a song from (The Temptations, Treat her like a lady) and put his spin on the song, so when it come to something like that, sampling music you got to make sure that you write who, what and where the music originated from. That's where resourcing plays a good part in the researching life.
A good first entry James. I enjoy the breadth of sources you consider research - movies and music as well as books and the internet. This approach makes all your experiences potential research sources. Also like that you are willing to share research with others. Often you can extend your research by talking about with someone else who will then add to what you have discovered. Research seems a bit random as you describe it. Do you ever decide to watch a film because it relates to your research rather than watching any film and getting some ideas.
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Grant