Zotero - Unleasching the power of community development

I've had the privilege of playing around with quite a good number of open source softwares and various their flavors. And I keep falling in love with Firefox each time there is a new extension that redefines my browsing experience. With my endeavor into Academic research and a basic requirement to read research papers and use them as citations made me look for a software that could manage bibliography. I was introduced to Zotero by Sumit; a colleague and senior at MDI. Zotero is a great piece of firefox extension that can make your research journey a very exciting and smooth one.

Zotero sits right into your browser and manages the research papers/journal articles for you. It's so smooth that even a novice can get addicted to it in no time. The power of community development is wonderful. May god bless open source. Amen!

The day as it goes by..

Trying to find something constructive that was part of the day. I had the opportunity to attend the mock pre-thesis defense of one of the guys from our FPM programme and I am starting to realize that more than the content/outcome of your pre-thesis work is your ability to justify the methodology of your research. May be I am too new to understand and conclude that it's quite ironical.

What I am starting to realize already is that you must be very strong in your research fundamentals and this gives a real upper edge in justifying your work and marketing you work. If you are looking to do a Ph.D from MDI come prepared with the state of mind that you'll be doing hardcore studies in Research methodologies and importantly the philosophy of the way the knowledge is to be created. After all an FPM program is knowledge creation exercise.

Reality Assumption

Analytical philosophy's assumption of quality of reality is that, the whole is the sum of it's parts. This means that once the researcher gets to know the different parts of the whole, the parts can be added together to get the total picture.

Knowledge created using Analytical approach is characterized as being independent of the observer.

The assumption behind the systems approach, different from the assumption underlying the the analytical approach, is that reality is arranged in such a way that the whole differs from sum of it's parts.

If we say that the whole is understood by characteristics of it's parts, we bring into picture the third approach known as the actors approach.

The Above three are the basic methodological approaches in Research.

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