Unit+1+Student+Notes

Please write here notes from the introductory meeting. Feel free to introduce lists of new words and phrases and new notions and concepts. Further suggestions will follow soon.

Internet for Social Research
Key vocabulary tip: you may group the new vocabulary in the following ways.

Key concepts:
Academic Research Academic Publishing Scholarly communication
 * Past research: "Standing on the shoulders of giants"
 * Peer review
 * The academic press
 * Scholarly journals
 * Bibliographic databases
 * Libraries
 * Proffesional organisation (support and research)
 * Academic conferences (discuss and debate)
 * Social media (blogs,wikis,email)