If you have these or similar questions, you are not alone. Setting out to do your own research can be a daunting task. In this post, you will find a few methods to help you get started, and keep going deeper, into your research.
- As a class, we investigated the right to free speech, paying attention to the laws that protect speech and the laws that limit speech. Which other rights are protected by the law? Which other rights are limited by the law? Are you personally affected by limitations of certain rights?
- As a class, we were introduced to the issue of human trafficking. What questions were you left with? Is human trafficking an issue in Indonesia or Bali? In the country you are from? What search term would you use to find out?
- aside from the specific issue of patents, what are some other issues of ownership you are familiar with? Do you break copyright laws? Follow Ira's progress as she investigates the culture conflict between Bali and Malaysia. Is assimilating another people's culture theft? Should there be international laws against it?
The questions you initially ask, once researched, should lead you on to more questions; more questions will lead you deeper into the issue and illuminate multiple perspectives. That is how good research works. Keep track of the questions you ask by posting them to your blog. Summarise your findings as you go, with links back to the original sources. You will leave a trail of information that will become the basis of your knowledge.
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