The Research Process by Jason Russell

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The Research Processby Jason Russell

• Research is fundamental
• Nothing will make you better, faster at debate
  than doing really good research
• Research not only produces more evidence, but
  produces more ideas about debate, more innovative
  types of arguments, more familiarity with the
  language used in debates, and generally makes you
  rule.
• Research is the thing about debate that will most
  benefit you outside of debate.

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Where do I do research?

• The ASU Library
• http//lib.asu.edu/
• Listed under Most Used Resources on homepage

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Databases at ASU

• WorldCat A database of databases
• My favorite database Its literally a
  clearinghouse of most of the university databases
• WorldCat syncs to the entire ASU library, making
  finding everything at Foley easier
• Books are where good cards live

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WorldCat continued

• The arrival / Author Tan, Shaun.Publication New
  York Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007
• Document English  Book  Fiction  Juvenile
  audience
• Libraries Worldwide 2592    Arizona State
  University
• More Like This Search for versions with same
  title and author  Advanced options ...
•  See more details for locating this item 

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• FirstSearch indicates your institution owns the
  item.
• Libraries worldwide that own item 2592   
   Arizona State University
•  Search the catalog at your library
• Borrow this item from another library (Interlibrar
  y Loan)
• LOCATIONCALL
  STATUS 
• HAYDEN CURRICULUM  Fic T1536ar 2007   SHELF 
• POLYTECH CURRICULUM Fic T1536ar 2007   SHELF 
• WEST JOURNALS  Fic T1536ar 2007   ON
  EXHIBIT

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Databases at ASU

• Academic Search Premier
• An EBSCO database
• Contains tons of periodicals, a very useful
  resource

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Academic Search Premier Contd

• Search modes
• Boolean/Phrase
• Find all my search terms
• Find any of my search terms
• SmartText SearchingHint
• Apply related words
• Also search within the full text of the articles

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Academic Search Premier Contd

• Military Policy Options to Revise the French
  Military Presence in the Horn of Africa.Full Text
  Available By Liebl, Vernie. Comparative
  Strategy, Jan/Feb2008, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p79-87,
  9p DOI 10.1080/01495930701839787 (AN 31168057)
• Subjects DJIBOUTI FRANCE DJIBOUTI -- Foreign
  relations FRANCE -- Foreign relations -- 1995-
  FRANCE -- Military relations
• Database Academic Search Complete
• Add to folder Relevancy 
• PDF Full Text (54KB)
• Full Text Options  

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JSTOR

• JSTOR is a cool, full-text database that also
  allows you to search within the text of the
  articles contained.
• The other primary benefit of JSTOR is that it
  contains only peer-reviewed (i.e. high quality,
  academic) research

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Lexis-Nexis

• Lexis (legal) Nexis (news)
• Full text database, allows you to search within
  the text
• Best for really current events (politics, econ,
  relations)

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Project Muse

• Sick K cardz
• Full-text searches, full-text retrieval
• Not at all for noobs

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Think Tanks

• Immigration Policy Specific Resources
• Immigration Policy Institute
• Center for Immigration Studies
• The Migration Policy Institute
• The Southern Poverty Law Center
• National Policy Institute
• NDN
• Progressive Policy Institute
• Center for American Progress

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Think Tanks contd

• Generally known and useful think tanks that speak
  to immigration policy
• -Council on Foreign Relations
• -The Heritage Foundation
• -The Brookings Institution
• -The CATO Institute
• -RAND
• -American Enterprise Institute
• -Hoover Institution

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Think Tanks Contd

• Useful country- or area-specific think tanks
• -Nautilus Institute (Korea)
• -The Sejong Institute (Korea)
• -Korean Legislation Research Institute (Korea)
• -Centre for Strategic Research Analysis
  (Turkey)
• -Foreign Policy Institute (Turkey)
• -Global Political Trends Center (Turkey)
• -East-West Center (Korea/Japan)
• -East-West Institute (Korea/Japan)
• -National Institute for Research Advancement
  (Japan)
• -Japan Institute of International Affairs (Japan)

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Think Tanks Contd

• -International Council on Security Development
  (Afghanistan)
• -Senlis Council (Afghanistan)
• -The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Silk Road
  Studies Program (Afghanistan)
• -The EHSS (www.ehess.fr/html/html/index.html)(Afgh
  anistan)
• -The Middle East Forum (Kuwait/Iraq)
• -Washington Institute for Near-East Policy
  (Kuwait/Iraq)
• -Center for Middle East Public Policy
  (Kuwait/Iraq)
• -Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political
  Studies (Kuwait/Iraq)
• -Carnegie Middle East Center (Kuwait/Iraq)

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Sick Google Tips

• Use the cache
• ASU Libraries
• Library One Search retrieves many articles,
  books, and other resources from the ASULibraries'
  collection. About the Library One
  Search ...lib.asu.edu/ - Cached - Similar

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Sick Google Tips Contd

• Do searches in quotations where applicable (i.e.
  immigration policy not immigration policy)
• Use advanced search options to delimit your terms
• Increase your results per page (to like a
  million)
• Be persistent Google is not the smartest search
  engine its just the biggest. Youll need to
  look through a lot of pages a lot of times.

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Sick Google Tips Contd

• Use Google News/Create Google alerts Politics
  is a perfect example. You can tell Google to give
  you every article that says political capital
  and Obama in it.
• Google books are cool You can screen print the
  page and then scan it and OCR it, or you can stop
  whining and type the card. Thats about it
  though.

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Citing Ev

• Citations
• Russell 9 (Jason, Dir Forensics-OU, Being Awesome
  Quarterly, 3(4), p. 15) JLR
• Yes, the 9 represents 2009. Do not write that
  whole thing bc thats lame.
• Abbreviate where you can. See Dir above.
• 3(4) is the volume(issue).
• Do not include the article title. Thats for
  noobz.
• Include the URL for all electronic stuff.
• Put your initials outside the parenthesis. See
  JLR.

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Tagging Ev

• Tags are the connection between your reading of
  the evidence the judge
• They should be brief cogent
• Tags are an argument evidence is support for an
  argument.

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Underlining Ev

• Why do we underline?
• Think word economy

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• Dont underline in such a way that the card
  doesnt make sense (subject/verb agreement)
• Mahler 8 (Jonathan, NY Times Policy Analyst
  ,June 2008, NY Times, http//www.nytimes.com/2
  008/06/15/weekinreview/15mahler.html)JRG
• And yet, long before the Bush administrations
  recent string of defeats, at least one justice
  warned of the dangers of endorsing war policies
  that might, in retrospect, look draconian. A
  military order, however unconstitutional, is not
  likely to outlive a military emergency, but a
  Supreme Court decision will stand for generations
  to come. Justice Robert Jackson, who would later
  be chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of
  Nazi war criminals, spoke to this danger in a
  dissent in the 1944 Korematsu case, the Supreme
  Court ruling upholding the detention of
  Japanese-Americans in internment camps during
  World War II. Justice Jackson wrote that
  validating such an action was like leaving behind
  a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any
  authority that can bring forward a plausible
  claim of an urgent need. In keeping with the
  courts general reluctance to interfere with the
  presidents war-making powers, its rulings in the
  war on terror began relatively modestly. Hamdi v.
  Rumsfeld, in 2004, pertained only to United
  States citizens detained as enemy combatants on
  American soil the court held that they must get
  a meaningful opportunity to challenge the
  factual basis for their detention.
• Reduce the ununderlined portion, but never below
  8 pt font.

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Research Tips

• Triangulate your research
• Be exhaustive
• Follow a research trail
• Use your references
• Read footnotes/endnotes
• Take notes from the text. Look for key
  individuals, groups, organizations quoted with
  opinions on the issue at hand.

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How to Read for Research

• Learn to skim
• Read the table of contents
• Read the introductory chapter
• Look for subject headings in text
• Follow the authors organizational pattern
• Search the text for keywords

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Template Questions

• What do you need to know?
• All research at ADI will be electronic text
• NO IMAGES
• Free OCR is available in many places online

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Conclusion

• Research is what we do start to love it now.
• Research is a process. Learning is inevitable but
  takes time. If youre not great now, dedicate
  yourself to it.

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