The document provides tips for developing original research. It discusses how research is a process, not a product, and originality often emerges from ordinary scholarly activity. It addresses problems researchers face like "empty brain syndrome" and being "stuck in your brain." Tips for addressing these issues include using various search engines and alerts, engaging with research communities, analyzing literature critically, thinking in reverse, transcending disciplines, visualizing ideas, using idea generators, brainstorming, and developing hypergraphia through free writing or blogging. The goal is to stimulate new ideas and thinking outside of established patterns to create original contributions.

1. Research Originality
Tips & Tricks
Nora Almalki
Assistant professor of European Languages
Head of Development Dept.Deanship of E-Learning &Distance Education
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2. Contact
Nora Almalki
Naalmalki1@kau.edu.sa
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3. Proposal Research writing Modifications
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4. First, let’s agree on two things ….
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5. RESEARCH is a PROCESS nota PRODUCT
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6. Everyone cancome up with
fresh, & radical
ideas
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7. Don’t you?
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8. Originality!!
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9. Originality!!
“…flashes of inspiration are infrequent … One often arrives
at the end of a project before one is able to take the
measure of how original the contribution is, and this
illustrates the point … that originality is a by-product of
quite ordinary scholarly activity. All one has to do is to
recognise it when it emerges and give it full scope.”
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10. Originality!!
What are YOU doing actually?
- Unexplored
- Untested
- Alternatives
- Data/ Content
- Methods/ Techniques
- Contexts
- Interpretations
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11. Problems we face as researchers
when we want to …create…original research
1. Empty-Brain Syndrome
2. Stuck-in-my-Brain Syndrome
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12. Empty-Brain Syndrome
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13. SEARCH ENGINES
Why so many?
Keywords (they suck)
Google Scholar (citations)
Google Books
Please, use the advanced
search option on any search
engine: Google Advanced
Academic search engines!! So
what? I have Google.
100 research engines for Academics
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14. ALERTS
WHY? Cannot I just read a
book, Or research papers in
my field?
YES. You can. But you have to
stay in the loop…
Updated,
Google Scholar ALERTs
ISI Web of Science alerts
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15. MINGLE
Be part of the research hype
in your field.
How?
Join online forums,
comminutes, listservs (mailing
lists), etc.
Do not be passive:
Ask them questions
Respond to their questions
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16. SCREEN LITERATURE
• Do you accept the author's conclusions? If not, are there other approaches
that could allow you to test their conclusion?
• Does this research suggest new ways to interpret a different problem?
(Could something like this model explain other areas? Other periods of
time? Other types of processes?).
• Are there other problems that could be studied using the same methods?
(And what equipment or expertise is necessary to use these methods?).
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17. REVERSE THINKING
Beautiful people can make good models.
Reverse thinking
Ugly people can make good models.
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18. REVERSE THINKING
Madness is a mental disorder. It sets mad people apart from normal
people because of the way they interpret reality not because of “how”
they think about it, i.e. the cognitive process. Hence, one can assume that
mad people’s mental processes are as coherent and causal as normal
people's.
Mad people are different from normal people
Reverse thinking
Mad people are the same as normal people
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19. TRANSCEND DISCIPLINE
Transdisciplinary
Research
Multidisciplinary
Research
Interdisciplinary
Research
Collaboration in which
exchanging information,
altering discipline-
specific approaches,
sharing resources and
integrating disciplines
achieves a common
scientific goal
(Rosenfield 1992).
Researchers from a
variety of disciplines
work together at some
point during a project,
but have separate
questions, separate
conclusions, and
disseminate in different
journals.
Researchers interact
with the goal of
transferring knowledge
from one discipline to
another. Allows
researchers to inform
each other’s work and
compare individual
findings.
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20. Stuck-in-my-Brain Syndrome
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21. VISUALIZE
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22. USE IDEA GENERATORS
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23. BRAINSTORM
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24. DEVELOP HYPERGRAPHIA!!
No, I am not asking you to do that!!
Free writing
Journals
Blogging
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25. Thank you
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