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When you do library based research, you usually have to work on your own. This gives you the opportunity to become a more independent learner and to show that you can think for yourself. These are qualities that are highly valued in academic settings within the English speaking world.

However, working independently does not mean that your research is not connected to the work of other people. One of the main purposes of universities is to produce knowledge, that is, to create, evaluate and disseminate new information and ideas. Producing knowledge usually involves many scholars working in different times and places. When you do research as part of your course, you are learning skills which will allow you to participate in that wider effort. You have the opportunity to develop the ability to:

Glossary

evaluate If you evaluate something or someone, you consider them in order to make a judgement about them, for example about how good or bad they are.

disseminate To disseminate information or knowledge means to distribute it so that it reaches many people or organizations.

Create a research question and an argument to answer it.

Evaluate the research that has been done by others.

Disseminate your research by writing it up and submitting it for a mark, and, in some cases, by sharing what you have learned with other students on your course.