Research Skills Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Pre-assignment exercise. Fully customisable. Helps to reinforce the delegates understanding of the course contents.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Research Skills’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

You might think that you left researching for papers behind in school, but business research skills are essential when it comes to putting your business reports or business cases together. With our Research Skills courseware, students learn the importance of research skills, and research methodologies that help them get the information they need.

Research Skills courseware teaches students how to take effective notes, read for maximum retention, plan a research strategy, use library and online sources effectively, create outlines, and make the most of their primary and secondary research sources. With an instructor’s guide, research skills lessons and activities, student manual, and more, trainers receive all of the customizable material they need for an effective and informative one-day research skills workshop.

Target audience

Our courseware is primarily purchased by five types of trainer; HR managers, corporate trainers, private training firms, educational institutions, or private consultants. The target audience varies on the instructor and the type of training required by a particular organization.

The students for this course are usually training staff or managers involved in training.

Course contents

• Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• Why Are Research Skills Important? In this day and age, it may seem silly to talk about research skills. However, there are some real benefits to honing your ability to find good, reliable information.
• Basic Skills This session will explore three fundamental skills needed to perform good research: reading, note-taking, and memory recall.
• Planning Your Research Strategy Now that you have some basic skills, it’s time to start putting it into action. This session will explore a research model and how to get ready to hit the books.
• Where to Look and What to Look For When you’re researching, think beyond search engines and libraries. This session will cover the differences between primary and secondary sources and how to analyze a source’s credibility
• Finding Information the Old-Fashioned Way Next, participants will learn how to use reference sources, journals, trade publications, and their network as research sources.
• Researching with the Internet At first glance, the Internet seems like a wonderful research tool. However, not all websites are credible. This session will give participants some tools for assessing the credibility of any site. We will also provide a list of some sites that are currently authentic and reliable. Social publication sites like Wikipedia will also be covered.
• Getting Ready to Write This session will give participants a way to organize all their information before they write. Outlines will also be covered.
• Putting Pen to Paper The final session of this workshop will cover writing basics, revision tips, source documentation, proper attribution, plagiarism, documentation styles, and bibliographies
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the workshop, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and complete an action plan

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