Engage in a cyclical search process
| The Vocabulary of a Community |
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By brainstorming terminology related to a personal interest, students reflect on challenges and strategies for developing search terms about an unfamiliar research topic. |
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Students practice reading abstracts in order to determine how articles may address various facets of a research question and to identify aspects of the questions that remain to be addressed. |
| Narrowing a Topic |
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This lesson, created for English 2010, or Argumentative Writing, teaches students how to use library databases and keywords in order to focus their research topics. Most students come prepared with a general or broad topic in mind, but they need to narrow their focus in order to get more relevant search results. Here they simultaneously learn to search in and use the library databases and to focus their research topics. |
