Discussing the issues
It's easy to underestimate the benefit of discussing your thoughts with other students. In general, discussion with other students is a powerful learning mechanism. A few minutes conversation with a fellow-student will often help to clarify your understanding.
Blackboard/Sakai: Where your unit has a online component, you can use bulletin boards and emails to exchange ideas with other students.
Email: UNE uses webmail as it's web-based email package. If you are an internal student, or an external student attending a residential school, you can exchange ideas with other students face-to-face.
Lecturers: It is also important to remember that you can always discuss your problems with your lecturer or unit-coordinator. Although this is easiest to do if you are an internal student, external students can email or ring teaching staff or approach them in person during residential schools.
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Online communities: Online sites such as facebook provide another avenue for discussion and interaction for people interested in similar issues. You may want to join the University of New England group on Facebook.
Summary
This page examined different techniques for ensuring that you have properly understood and evaluated the results of your research. These include:
- Making careful summaries of the main points.
- Assessing information in terms of relevance, currency, reliability, accuracy and coverage.
- Discussing the issues with fellow-students and teaching staff.
Let's now go on to look at the task of putting all your information together.
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