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VA for Research for Legal Services
South African research VAs find sources, verify facts, compile data, summarize findings, organize citations, and support research projects—providing the thorough investigative work that enables academics and professionals to produce quality work.
Core outcomes for Legal Services
Find sources, verify facts, and summarize data while you write the paper.
- tenacious researcher for academic or business topics
- Ability to synthesize information clearly
- specific attention to source verification
- Organized citation and data management
Typical responsibilities
- Find academic papers and scholarly sources
- Locate credible online resources
- Access journal databases and archives
- Identify primary and secondary sources
- Build comprehensive bibliographies
- Compile statistics and data sets
- Gather survey responses
- Extract data from reports and studies