Part 1: Start Your Research Process
Questions to Consider
As you read Part 1, consider the following:
- How would you define the information need for your research project scenario?
- Do you need to do any background reading to prepare for your research project scenario?
- What type of sources do you use every day?
- How do you discover those sources?
Part 1: Start Your Research Process Outline
The following ten chapters are in Part 1:
- Reflecting On Your Understanding of Information Creation
- Defining an Information Need
- Developing a Research Topic
- Background Reading
- Information Sources
- “Scholarly” Sources
- Different Sources for Different Needs
- Search Tools
- Different Search Tools for Different Sources
- Start Your Research Process Summary
It should take approximately 75 minutes to complete Part 1.
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