The desire to produce exceptional scholarly writing in research, graduate school, or on the job comes from our objective belief that the sometimes painful process is a necessary, if frustrating occupational hazard required getting our viewpoint into the stream of professional consciousness. With the advent of technological advances can we still rely on the four verbal language processes heretofore demanded in research, these being reading, writing, talking, and listening with writing. Shall these still be the optimal method of delivery, or should all abandon the conventional and develop new skill sets using electronic communication, social media interaction, shared databases, and so forth? Would such a conversion result in diminution of the cognitive reasoning skills needed in research, or conversely generate an enlarged intellectual prowess resulting from access to potentially billions of reference sources?
I am against the thought of replacing conventional research. I would rather suggest complementing it with electronic research innovations. Since the advent of electronic research innovations we have experienced a diminution of the cognitive reasoning skills needed in research. Majority of potention scholars are redundant. Most are enslaved with electronic thinking.
I strongly agree with Dr. Okello. The question or discussion should never be about replacing traditional academic research methods with electronic ones, but should be -- "How do we augment and improve traditional academic research using new technological (or electronic) tools, resources, and mediums?"
I am always suspicious of blogs, discussion forums, etc., because it is so hard to verify the information. Also, I have found that many people who use discussion forums seem incapable of using proper English and the profanity is awesome. Thanks for your ideas.
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