In today’s seminar we came up with the following research tip:

When reading articles create a file and place all the questions generated by all the the articles that you have read that week and then have a block of time set aside ( for example, 3 hours on a friday afternoon ) to spend searching in the data bases for possible articles that may address these questions.

This was rather than read something then go searching for something else to try to answer the question from that article than that generates a question and you search for the answer for that and so it goes on. the difficulty with that approach is that you spend lots of little bits of time doing lots of different things which can be quite fragmenting for your thinking process. Also if you have a number of articles that you systematically work through over a period of days taking note of the questions each one generates for you in your question file, in your weekly review period it may be that some of those questions have then been answered.