Horticultural Research Part 1

Overview

What can good research skills do for you? Good research skills will enable you identify emerging trends and changes that affect horticulture, and to help formulate better strategies, practices and uses for horticulture. Your ability to conduct and present research can lead to innovations that address crucial local and global issues, or to the provision of cutting-edge horticultural services.

This Horticultural Research Part 1 course from Warnborough College will develop your ability to research and present a critical, written and numerical assessment of information related to social, technological, environmental and economic issues that impact on Horticulture today.

Good research skills will enable you be an innovator in horticulture, and to identify trends, issues, and needs that can create new opportunities and directions in horticulture.

Course Aims

• Conduct preliminary investigations to determine areas where there is a valid need for research in social, technological and environmental issues that impact on horticulture today

• Conduct an information search into a defined issue related to social, technological and environmental issues that impact on Horticulture today.

• Explain research methods, including experimental techniques, commonly used.

• Demonstrate and explain the basic statistical methods used for research.

• Conduct a minor statistical research project into a well defined area, relevant to your area of study.

• Prepare a research report in a format which conforms to normal industry procedures.

• Demonstrate critical analytical thinking, reviewing skills and report writing skills