Top-Down Research, Generalists, and Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research?
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Top-Down Research, Generalists, and Google Scholar: Does Google Scholar Facilitate Breakthrough Research?
Researchers long ago demonstrated that top-down, inference-based approaches to research have comfortably co-existed with more traditional bottom-up, hypotheses-driven research. Yet most faculty omit any mention of top-down approaches in direct instruction or training of students, despite these approaches being both relatively common, occasionally necessary, and considerably more efficient than ...
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عنوان ژورنال: OALib
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2333-9721,2333-9705
DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102629