when I start a project, there are a lot of reference books and related articles, so here is the question, which one is priority?
some people told me that articles are update daily, but the time of updating a book to a new edition take years, and there are a lot of books that never edited, yet the essentials of science written in those books! and here stands the the main question: What is the priority, reference books or articles?
You will have to go for both. It is not necessary that all old books are outdated. However, keep in mind that you are doing your project work at postgraduate level and you will have to complete your work within the stipulated time period, may be a few months.
In all scholarly writings, every good resource is important, whether research papers or books. Its true that knowledge is updated. Yet, this does not bend down the old, existing theories in some classic works in books and research papers.
What should be a priority? Research paper writing requires that you review related literature to find out whether the knowledge gap your study would fill is indeed a 'gap'. Thud, reading more research papers would be a priority. Member that you have to always juxtapose new knowledge (recent researches) with the old knowledge (Old but classic researches) in writing an intelligent debate on the subject of interest.
On the other hand, the writing of academic books, particularly those meant for the classroom (textbooks), would require the reading of many books, making it a priority.
Dear Mr Farid, Mr Subir and Mr Dickson, Thank you very much for your concern about the way of science, indeed your experience will be a good guide to beginner like me.
I think there should not be priority because each is important according to requirement.
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