Skip to Main Content
DkIT Logo

Starting Your Dissertation: What is Research

Research Explained

Over the past years you have been working on assignments and essays.  These all provided the grounding for the skills you will use in creating your dissertation.

 

While it will be a lot of work, research can also be interesting and satisfying.

Research is defined as the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings. This could include synthesis and analysis of previous research to the extent that it leads to new and creative outcomes.

 

 

Research & Information Creation

Research is what seperates news from an academic work. It looks at data differently, poses new questions, and seeks new understandings and/or new knowledge.

Finding Out About Research