The document provides guidance to students on conducting research for an assignment. It outlines the key steps in the research process which include defining the topic using questions, developing search keywords, and finding relevant books, articles and images. Students are instructed to work in groups to come up with questions about their topic, select the most relevant questions, and use those questions and keywords to search library databases and other sources for research materials. The document emphasizes questioning the topic to focus the research and properly attributing any images used.

1. More Questions Than Answers:
Finding Resources for your
Assignment
Nicole Branch
English 2A
April 11, 2016
Please sit with your groups!
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2. Today we will…
• Define your topic using questions
• Develop searchable keywords
• Find books
• Find articles
• Find and use images ethically
Image courtesy of Flickr user Rum Bucolic Ape.

3. Research Process
Topic
Keywords
BackgroundSearch
Refine

4. Questioning Your Topic
Questions can:
• Help narrow your topic
• Reveal different aspects of your topic
• Help focus your message

5. College-age voting
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6. It’s the Questions
• Get together with your team
• Decide on a brief summary of your core topic
• Write it on the white board
• Visit each team’s topic and record questions you
have about that topic
• Your question must be new to the board

7. Narrow in
• Return to your team
• Review the questions you received
• As a group, select the two questions you like
the best
• Record these questions on the PadLet

8. Keyword Development
Image courtesy of Joshua Vossler.

9. Books
• Library catalog
• OSCAR
• Exploring book content

10. Finding Articles
• OneSearch
• Types of sources
• Exploring by subject

11. Finding Images
Image from Creative Commons- A Shared Culture.

12. Image Sources
• Flickr
• ArtStor
• AP Images

13. Questions?
Nicole Branch
nbranch@scu.edu
x5436