Tanya reviews employment data from an academic journal and records source information in a research binder. What type of research does this activity represent?

Formal research uses credible sources and documents where the information came from. Tanya reviews employment data published in an academic journal and records the source in her research binder, so she is verifying and documenting her research. Simply storing information in a binder or working independently does not determine whether research is formal.

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