Journal Articles.

Getting to, and thinking critically about, the [Secondary] Research

Alright, peeps, this is where the rubber starts to meet the road  ^[1]. This week we’re really starting to test our critical thinking skills, coming up against some new challenges to critical information consumers such as crap research published in predatory journals. As my sister-in-law and I were discussing the other day, back in the olden days when we were young, if you wanted to know something it was ONLY a common way (aka: ask mom…who MAY be informed but maybe not) or encyclopedia Britannica. Yup, all the world’s basic knowledge was wrapped up in these 20+ enormous books. And those things were hella expensive – not at all accessible like the web – and we sure couldn’t afford them at my house.

[Yes, yes, this again!] We’re going to cover some pretty complicated concepts in this course. I recommend that you watch this video at the outset of each unit, and think about the major concepts and how they related to the content of each unit. Each unit has an entire chapter dedicated to the concepts described in this video. You will only be tested on the concepts when they are included in a chapter. Re-watching this video allows you to think about how the concepts all fit together.