About Search & Write
Search & Write is an online course which aims to help students with thesis writing. We will show you a number of different methods you can use to help you get started with writing your thesis and a number of different information search methods.
One of the most important goals of the Search & Write course is to help you become more information literate.
Information literate means that you know that:
- you need information
- you have to search for relevant information
- you have to use the information you find actively in your thesis
You will be information literate when you have obtained information sources and use them in your work.
The writing and search processes for students and researchers are very similar. The start point for the search process is often a feeling of wonder. There is something you want to learn a great deal more about. There is something you want to research. This process of curiosity, doubt and wonder is the driving force behind the need to find information on the subject you have selected.
Writing academic texts can be described as being a process of different phases.
The phases change from the point in time when you only have a vague idea about the content of your thesis to the point in time when you have a clear hypothesis which your writing can be based around. Brainstorming, free writing, speed writing and outline can be used to help you get started with your writing. You can find out more about all these methods in Search & Write.
The reasons why you need information will vary with each stage of your work. You will therefore need different types of sources and you will perhaps also evaluate information based on different sets of criteria at different stages in your work. You will find good evaluation criteria for the sources you use in the Search & Write course.
In Search & Write you meet the midwifery student Oda, the economics student Christian and the Middle East student Sofie. They all illustrate as examples on different challenges you may meet during the writing process of an assignment.
There are two course levels.
Select Basic if you are a new student and Advanced if you are a student at a higher level.
