The Creative Guide to Research: How to Find What You Need Online or Offline

by Robin Rowland

A perfect guide to online and offline research perfect for writers, journalists, Web page creators, television producers, artists, students, and anyone else who needs information in a hurry. The book is eminently practical, but also conveys a sense that research is an adventure, and that there has never been a better time than the present to find things out. The Creative Guide to Research is unlike any book on the market today. Traditional research books just touch on the computer and the Internet. Internet research books ignore valuable printed sources and techniques. The Creative Guide to Research combines both and sets the pace for research in the new millennium. It will teach - How to focus a project and map out a search strategy.
- The best places to research, online and offline.
- Tips for informal and formal interviews.
- How to get the best out of the Web.

Genres: Writing

284 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2000

About the author

I’m an independent author, journalist and visual journalist, based in Kitimat, British Columbia,Canada.

I freelance as a photographer, writer, journalist, television producer and web/multimedia producer, serving northwestern British Columbia and the rest of the world.

My current nonfiction book is A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal. I’m author of four previous books, including the first book on how to do research on the Interent.

Until March 2010, when I took early retirement, I worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s news division as the Photo Editor for CBC News and a producer for the news website CBCnews.ca.

From April 1998 until April 2007, I also worked as a producer of “The National” website. Before I joined the National, I was a writer/producer with CBC.ca’s predecessor CBC Newsworld Online, the CBC’s headline news service on the Internet. From 1994 to 1996, I was a lineup editor for CBC Newsworld News hourlies on the weekends and wrote for other CBC News shows.

I worked for CTV News from 1988 to 1994. From 1982 to 1984 I worked for the CBC’s pioneering new media experiment, Project Iris, which involved sending to news out through the then primitive teletext system.

From 1995 until 2001, I taught Computer-Assisted Reporting and Investigative Techniques at the Ryerson Polytechnic University School of Journalism.

I have two specific occasional blogs, Northwest Coast Energy News website, covering energy, environment and science as it affects northwestern British Columbia (and given Kitimat’s key new role in the world energy market, the rest of the world, as well) and the long term future of journalism on the Tao of News.

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

If your writing requires research, this book will help you get it done. It is incomplete, but few good books have been written on this subject. This is one of them.