Whether its Undergradutate, Postgraduate or Researchers, I have always been an advocate for mindmapping and brainstorming.
For research purposes, I find the information search planners from the "Advanced Database Searching" subject guide really helpful. Here is a link to one that I find the most useful as I have used it personally for research - http://www.deakin.edu.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0011/267149/search-planner.docx
This is a very effective and comprehensive manner in which to set out your research journey, becoming aware of the array of resources that can be accessed.
I found Padlet.com also very useful in terms of brainstorming ideas. This is especially effective when you wish to collaborate with other researchers on a particular research area and would like to collect all their ideas and your ideas creating a smogarsboard of your ideas and actioning it into your research.
Brainstorming is so very important in the research process (whether done in groups and just by yourself)...and exploring tools that help mindmapping and brainstorming are just great!!
ReplyDeletethanks for the link to that Deakin research