Legal Research

"Reducing Research Anxiety in the Legal Research Process"

This post was written by Ted Tjaden: "What follows in this post are some initial thoughts on what I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and legal researchers: (a topic I might consider researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research process?

That legal researchers suffer anxiety goes without saying. The researcher may be uncertain where to begin, they may be suffering from too much information, or they may lack confidence in concluding they have reached the "correct" answer (I myself have had these feelings several times in the last week alone in research I have conducted in addition to also regularly perceiving such anxiety in people I have been helping)..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 15 September 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).