Search and Research
Search and Research to Support Rigor
1-hour interactive presentation. 3 lessons introduce motivations for learning about a project, establish processes for organizing knowledge, and approaches to address knowledge gaps. Spice up a lab meeting, teach a class, run a skill-building session for your team.
2-hour interactive presentation. 6 lessons include and continue the Meeting version to address the mechanics of conducting a targeted literature search, iterating on the search, and the cautious usage of LLMs to enhance learning. Teach one week of class, or run an intensive workshop.
Asynchronous, online reference resource. 6 chapters with built-in activities expand upon content in the Class version to support learners in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their learning and search. Learn solo, assign it as coursework, or use it as a reference.
Search and Research
BETA
Search and Research to Support Rigor
2-hour interactive presentation. 6 lessons include and continue the Meeting version to address the mechanics of conducting a targeted literature search, iterating on the search, and the cautious usage of LLMs to enhance learning. Teach one week of class, or run an intensive workshop.
Asynchronous, online reference resource. 6 chapters with built-in activities expand upon content in the Class version to support learners in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their learning and search. Learn solo, assign it as coursework, or use it as a reference.
Unit Overview
What you will do
Literature search is a key step in learning about a research topic. This unit gives you a strategic, rigorous approach to engaging the scientific literature. We begin with identifying what you need to learn and how to organize scientific knowledge, then move to recognizing and probing gaps through a variety of approaches, and using targeted literature searching to be both thorough and precise in finding what you need. Later lessons cover how to iterate on your literature search and document a search to keep it rigorous, as well as how to engage cautiously with an LLM as an additional tool. This unit can help researchers at all career stages to improve efficiency and accuracy in work with published research.
Course highlights