ABSTRACT
Imagine that you are competing in a major sporting event. How are you going to approach this occasion? There will be two basic ways you can do so. First, you can simply not worry, and hope everything goes well on the day, and hope that whatever tactics you come up with are successful. Alternatively you can spend time training specifically for the event, by learning appropriate strategies and tactics, finding out the strengths and weaknesses of your opposition, finding out how others have fared against them in the past, and coming up with a detailed game plan based on the evidence that you collect. It is likely that the second
Introduce the concept of ‘research’. Discuss some of the reasons why we undertake research. Outline the different types of research. Describe how to approach the reading of research articles.
