How Do You Know When Research Is Good?
Law Library Journal, Vol. 98, pp. 721-25, 2006
5 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2009
Date Written: February 2, 2009
Abstract
How can you evaluate the quality of research or of researchers? This essay explores the question and concludes with this formulation:
A good researcher gets the right answer (or a plausible answer) efficiently (that is, quickly but not too quickly to be thorough enough for the task) and can explain the research process (sources and searches chosen and not chosen). Also a good researcher doesn't get in trouble with a judge, a boss, or a professor for sloppy research.
Keywords: research, legal research
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Whisner, Mary, How Do You Know When Research Is Good? (February 2, 2009). Law Library Journal, Vol. 98, pp. 721-25, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1336698
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