{"title":"The Legal Research Plan and the Research Log: An Examination of the Role of the Research Plan and Research Log in the Research Process","authors":"Caroline L. Osborne","doi":"10.1080/0270319X.2016.1227205","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A new associate exits the office of Senior Partner with a research assignment. She returns to her office, sits down at the keyboard, pulls up her favorite search engine, and begins typing in keywords. This is the usual start to a research project by a novice researcher. This process may result in an answer; however, it is usually little more than an answer. The average attorney jumps into a research question without thinking.11 “The average attorney will dive into research without thinking. Don't yield to this temptation. Spend the time to just sit and think about your case, to know what question you should research.” Duane Ostler, The Strength Is in the Research, 20 Utah B.J. 42, 43 (2007). This article discusses the basic elements of a legal research plan, recommends designs of research plans, and identifies the role of the research log in the research process.","PeriodicalId":39856,"journal":{"name":"Legal Reference Services Quarterly","volume":"21 1","pages":"179 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0270319X.2016.1227205","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Legal Reference Services Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0270319X.2016.1227205","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT A new associate exits the office of Senior Partner with a research assignment. She returns to her office, sits down at the keyboard, pulls up her favorite search engine, and begins typing in keywords. This is the usual start to a research project by a novice researcher. This process may result in an answer; however, it is usually little more than an answer. The average attorney jumps into a research question without thinking.11 “The average attorney will dive into research without thinking. Don't yield to this temptation. Spend the time to just sit and think about your case, to know what question you should research.” Duane Ostler, The Strength Is in the Research, 20 Utah B.J. 42, 43 (2007). This article discusses the basic elements of a legal research plan, recommends designs of research plans, and identifies the role of the research log in the research process.
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An important forum for daily problems and issues, Legal Reference Services Quarterly will assist you in your day-to-day work as it has been helping other law librarians and members of the legal profession for over a decade. You will find articles that are serious, humorous, critical, or simply helpful to the working librarian. Annotated subject bibliographies, overviews of legal literature, reviews of commonly used tools, and the inclusion of reference problems unique to corporate law libraries, judicial libraries, and academic collections will keep you up-to-date on the continuously expanding volume of legal materials and their use in legal research.
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