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How do I know the research I have found is reliable and scholarly? Are primary and secondary sources of information important?

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Sometimes I feel that the supervision meetings I have are not that helpful. What can I do to make the most of them?

A frequent question raised by new doctorate holders is “how do I go forward from here to build a research career?” In addressing the question, this brief essay attempts to establish a context that includes three inter-related research frameworks. The first level is the broad structure provided by the subject field and its sub-areas. The second level, which nests within the first, represents the key researchers who contributed fundamental work to a given subject area.

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             I’ve almost completed my thesis and want to keep up to date with current research when I graduate. How can I access scholarly research literature after I leave university?

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Can you tell me what I need to know to go about the process of submitting an academic article for publication?

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Where should I start searching … in Google, a catalogue or a database? Is it better to use one and not the others? Often I retrieve too few or too many results, where am I going wrong?

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What is the best way to structure an argument in an academic thesis, and is it the same as for an academic article?

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Why do we HAVE to do a literature review? It sounds boring to me.

And what is a literature review anyway?

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Why do we HAVE to search library catalogues and databases?

It sounds difficult and time-consuming and I’m not sure where to start. What are the steps in searching for relevant literature?

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Why do we HAVE to do 'academic writing'? It sounds boring to me.

And what is 'academic writing' anyway?