Presentation of chapter

The objective of this chapter is to introduce you to documentary research, an activity that you will have to do more and more as you go along your studies. More than just an activity, it is a method and a set of specific tools and resources you have to know about to acquire new automatic reflexes and facilitate your studies.

Finally, this chapter will help you create links with the documentary research classes given by the SCD, the Service Commun de Documentation (Documentation common service) and its teachers, which you will attend during your degree.

Objectives of this chapter

  • Understand the challenges of documentary research
  • Identify and formulate the subject of your documentary research
  • Know and use documentary research tools and services
  • Use the tools of documentary research to formulate a research equation
  • Evaluate and process the collected information
  • Know your documentary environment and the UP’s documentary offer
  • Evaluate documentary sources and resources in depth
  • Write a bibliography

Content of this chapter

Part A : Discover and understand the importance of documentary research

➥ Module 1 : Understanding the challenges of documentary research
Module 2 : Identifying and formulating the subject of your documentary research
➥ Module 3 : Distinguishing and using documentary research tools

Part B : Conducting documentary research, analysing and exploiting the results

➥ Module 4 : Distinguishing and manipulating the tools of documentary research
➥ Module 5 : Creating a research equation and adapting your documentary needs
➥ Module 6 : Evaluating an processing the collected information