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ideas Start with Web sources, but then take it to the next level, and use the Library's catalog to find more in-depth overviews on your topic. You're stepping on my hand. Now Watch This interesting! meow. Research Log From Day 1 - Keep a running diary of your ideas for your research paper along with your research activities - search techniques, tools, & sources. F-- STORM BRAIN Read Assignment Research-able Appropriate in scope Complex Ask questions About your topic Identify its parts Describe its characteristics method one In The Craft of Research, (Booth, Wayne, Colomb, Gregory and Joseph Williams. University of Chicago Press, 1995, p.39-41 for thinking up research questions Examine its value Trace its history & changes Can you answer the question with evidence? Can you access the sources you need to answer the question? Is the question difficult to answer?
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Good papers develop an argument (Thesis). Can you research the topic within the assignment's time frame? Can you adequately explore the question within the assignment's page limit? It will save you time and frustration...trust me! keep a AccessScience CREDO Reference List of e-reference materials Oxford Reference Online http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/allereference http://www.accessscience.com/index.aspx http://www.credoreference.com/home.do http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html?authstatuscode=200 Now Watch This... hot stuff CSUSonomaLibrary. "Deciphering Your Research Assignment." YouTube. Web. 3 Aug. 2011. ` Research Question by population group by methodology or discipline by time frame by geographic location Topic too broad? by aspect
or subarea Limit your scope [Government censorship of blogs in China] [romantic couples text messaging behavior & conflict management] [Breakfast eating habits of male college freshmen] [psychological factors of procrastination] [Fear appeal and US magazine advertising in the 1950s] CSUSonomaLibrary. "Brainstorm." YouTube. Web. 9 Aug. 2011. Drexel Libraries. "Library Catalog Searching" YouTube. Web. 7 Sept. 2011. Drexel Libraries. "CREDO Reference" YouTube. Web. 7 Sept. 2011.