Research Process
Learn all about the Research Process on this helpful website.
Topics covered:
- Understanding your assignment
- Too broad, too narrow, or just right? (Includes self-grading mini quiz)
- Identify potential ideas
- Turn your topic into a research question
- Find your keywords
- Finding information (Includes self-grading mini quiz)
- Test yourself--show your research smarts (Self-grading quiz)
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Organize your work
- It helps to have a folder in which to keep your notes. Keep the folder in a safe place.
- Cite sources as you go. If you use the Quick Cite Notes form (see below), you can write source information directly on your notes and use that information later to create your Works Cited list.
- Write citations as you go to avoid panic at the end of the project.
Resources for Teachers
The Right Question Institute: Resources for helping teachers teach students to ask better questions. Free membership.
Watch Question Formulation in action: Video from Right Question Institute--Science class
Question Formulation Technique in Action: Video from Right Question Institute--Humanities class
Implementing Question Formulation in the Classroom: What does it look like? "The Right Questions" by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana
See attached PPT: "Introducing the Question Formulation Technique" from RightQuestion.org
Many thanks to UC Irvine Libraries and The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Research Guide whose work was borrowed with their permission.