You can see that if you are going to use evidence in the professional practice and corporate writing you need to seek out the best available information for your studies and practice. You also need to focus on the general aspect of the topic you are interested in so that you do not get sidetracked with more common information and therefore fail to identify what you really need to know. You also need to be selective about what you read, see and hear and be able to recognize good quality evidence when you come across it.
It is important to apply the same rigor to your own writing and presenting, as you do when analyzing source materials. Use a simple checklist to help you ensure you are demonstrating your skills of in your presentations. It can help you to see how you can develop your work further. You can also ask your peers to critically appraise your work, helping you to get fresh ideas about how you can enhance your work.
Some journalists may have stricter editorial quality control than others and so may offer a higher standard of information but this still needs to be checked out. The internet contains many hundreds of millions of pages of information, including everything from rigorous research to trivia and misinformation.
Useful websites are likely to be those that are produced by a recognized professional body or client group. These might contain guidelines for practice, updates on professional issues and matters of concern to client groups. You will also see blogs and professional opinions which may offer fresh and rapidly changing information.
Sometimes you can access academic journal articles on the internet from a simple search using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Discussion between professionals about information or research that has been critically appraised is likely to be helpful. However, it is not always the case that information will be critically appraised by practitioners.
There is a need to be critical of what you read, see and hear, and you therefore need to question what you are told in practice rather than accepting what your mentor tells or shows you. If you stop to think about this, the implications are enormous. If information or advice is not critically appraised or is based on unfounded rumor, and is then passed unchallenged from one professional to another, we will not be demonstrating evidence-based practice.
However, newspapers may provide useful background information. They might lead you to a controversial quotation to start your assignment or to get people thinking in a discussion. Potential clients might refer you to a research study, giving a snippet of information but not the full reference for the study, making it harder but possible to track it down.
Others provide ideas, theoretical models and frameworks or opinions on a topic by leading experts. The main thing is to ensure that you have seen the most appropriate source for your purpose. This is because when you are starting to study a topic. It is usually most helpful to have an overview rather than to start by focusing on corporate writing without the necessary skills.
It is important to apply the same rigor to your own writing and presenting, as you do when analyzing source materials. Use a simple checklist to help you ensure you are demonstrating your skills of in your presentations. It can help you to see how you can develop your work further. You can also ask your peers to critically appraise your work, helping you to get fresh ideas about how you can enhance your work.
Some journalists may have stricter editorial quality control than others and so may offer a higher standard of information but this still needs to be checked out. The internet contains many hundreds of millions of pages of information, including everything from rigorous research to trivia and misinformation.
Useful websites are likely to be those that are produced by a recognized professional body or client group. These might contain guidelines for practice, updates on professional issues and matters of concern to client groups. You will also see blogs and professional opinions which may offer fresh and rapidly changing information.
Sometimes you can access academic journal articles on the internet from a simple search using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Discussion between professionals about information or research that has been critically appraised is likely to be helpful. However, it is not always the case that information will be critically appraised by practitioners.
There is a need to be critical of what you read, see and hear, and you therefore need to question what you are told in practice rather than accepting what your mentor tells or shows you. If you stop to think about this, the implications are enormous. If information or advice is not critically appraised or is based on unfounded rumor, and is then passed unchallenged from one professional to another, we will not be demonstrating evidence-based practice.
However, newspapers may provide useful background information. They might lead you to a controversial quotation to start your assignment or to get people thinking in a discussion. Potential clients might refer you to a research study, giving a snippet of information but not the full reference for the study, making it harder but possible to track it down.
Others provide ideas, theoretical models and frameworks or opinions on a topic by leading experts. The main thing is to ensure that you have seen the most appropriate source for your purpose. This is because when you are starting to study a topic. It is usually most helpful to have an overview rather than to start by focusing on corporate writing without the necessary skills.
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