Original Research

I have never done any kind of original research before. As based upon my own experience, I believe the library research and original research are totally different from each other on various aspects. Library research is doing research or gathering knowledge about certain topics that has been done by someone else whereas, original research is something based upon the ideas, knowledge, issues, research, etc that is done by oneself. Library research supports or guides original research in a way that it stores and provides the vast resources and informations to the people seeking knowledge about certain topics. It gives an idea and guides the person on knowing the subject matter deeply, the issues that are being addressed, datas and facts, etc. The pros of library research could be that it provides various options to choose from and they are easily accessible by everyone. The con is that the informations may be outdated and are always not available. The pros of original research could be that it is more accurate and qualitative as various steps are followed to perform it like survey, interviews, etc. The con is that it takes more time to complete and has to maintain the standard.Critical thinking skills that are involved in both types of research are reasoning, interpretation, evaluation, analysis, context and reflection. The most important critical thinking skill for library research among all is interpretation and evaluation. As we are researching for the topics that are originally researched by someone else, it is very important to know what they are trying to say and understand it.Also when we do the library research we have various resources to choose from so we should be able to evaluate and choose the right one. For the original research I think the most important critical thinking skill is reasoning, analysis and reflection. When a person is doing the original research they should be able to provide a good reasoning to what, why, how and whom? Also, they should be able to anaylze their own work and ideas and finally it should have their reflection.