This document provides a 4-step process for understanding a research assignment and beginning research: 1) Read and highlight the key aspects of the assignment, 2) Identify the type and scope of the assignment, 3) Conduct preliminary research to explore topic interests and evaluate source availability, and 4) Reread the assignment to choose a topic that meets requirements. It then discusses formulating a research question, identifying keywords, using Boolean operators and library databases to search for sources, and techniques for preliminary reading and note-taking from sources.
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5. Read the Assignment and Highlight Key
Aspects
Take your time and focus on reading
• Notate anything you are unsure of to ask your professor
Highlight the key aspects
• Due date
• Requirements
• Topic suggestions, etc.
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7. What Kind of Paper is this Supposed to
Be?
Analytical
o breaks down an issue or an idea into its component
parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this
breakdown and evaluation to the audience
Expository
o explains something to the audience
Argumentative
o makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with
specific evidence
Source: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/
8. What is the Scope of the Assignment?
What is the format of the paper?
How many pages should you write?
How should the information be presented?
What type and how many sources are required?
9. Begin exploring your topic interests
Ask more specific questions about each topic
DoWikipedia and Google searches to find more information
to see which directions the topic could go
11. Before you settle on a topic, conduct
more extensive research
Move beyond Google and consult more scholarly
resources
Keeping in mind:
• Length of your paper
• Number of sources needed as references
The research will tell you if there are enough
sources available to meet those requirements.
12. Where would you go to
do more research
beyond Google?
What are some scholarly sources you
know of?
Please type your answer in the chat box.
14. A good topic choice must be doable
Too general or too broad
of a topic:
• Overwhelming amount of
information.
• Would take too long for
the amount of time you
have.
o FIX: be more specific
(choose a sub group or
particular factor)
Too narrow or too specific:
• You can’t find enough
information on it to meet
requirements for length or
number of reference
sources.
o FIX: be more general
(identify what field or
group it belongs to)
Find the Sweet Spot
16. FormulateYour Research Question
Take the topic and make it a question…
The research question will guide to the rest of
your research.
17. Identifying Keywords
From the question,
identify the significant
terms.
These terms are the
keywords you will use to
search for sources in the
library databases.
Populating more
keywords:
• Identify the synonyms
and antonyms to your
keywords
• Use a thesaurus
• Brainstorming
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18. How has perspective in
Renaissance art helped
artists and viewers alike
to perceive and create
art?
Raise your hand if you can identify the
keywords in this question.
19. Boolean Operators
Three basic operators used
are:
• AND = narrow
• OR = expand
• NOT = exclude
AND is automatically used by Google and
other search engines to combine terms.
Sometimes a program will use a + or – to
substitute for AND or NOT
20. Library Databases
Boolean operators are used in the library databases.
Perform a keyword search to see how many articles you can
find .
Automatically limit your results to
• Scholarly/Peer Review
• Date range
• Full text
22. Some Other Considerations
Can I find the full text versions of the articles?
Are the books checked out that I need?
Are they at the Athens State Library?
Can I get sources using Interlibrary Loan (ILL)?
Do I have time enough to wait for an ILL delivery?
If necessary, do I have the money to obtain the materials I need?
Are the articles too old or too recent?
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24. How to Skim/Scan Research
Read headings, keywords, diagrams, illustrations for
overview of the chapter
Read intro paragraph/sentence
Scan for keywords
Read concluding paragraph/sentence
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25. Important Sections: Books
Table of Contents
• List of chapters
o Sometimes have sub content
• Scan to identify chapters relevant to what you want
Indexes
• Scan for keywords or topics
o Identify specific pages the keyword is on
Bibliography
• Look at what they cited and see if it is relevant to what you are
doing
• Go find and read those materials
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26. Important Sections: Articles
Important sections to scan
• Abstracts
• Method
• Conclusions
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27. In Summary
Read the assignment
• Identify what you need to
do to make a good grade
Preliminary Research
Choose your topic
• Make a research question
• Identify keywords
BeginYour Research
Library Databases
• Off campus access
• Limiting
• Downloading or Emailing
Read Sources andTake
Notes
• Skim/Scan important
areas
