2.3 Pre-Research

Today's lesson will be:

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Learn effective search techniques to find relevant and reliable information for the chosen topic for research papers.
• Learn solid background information about the chosen topic by doing some research about the problems, existing solutions, new terms and possible organizations. 

Q. Where are we?
Pre-research
Choosing a topic --> Topic and Organization
Pre-research
Develop a research question
Formal source search
Note-taking
Outline
Writing
Presentation

1. How often do you look for information in these places?

Google

Yahoo

Wikipedia

U.S. NEWS

New York Times

CQ Researcher

School library

School database

Anything else? ____________________________

2. What kind of information do you find there?

3. Why do we need pre-research? why don't you just start looking for sources in the library database?

4. What information are we trying to gain from pre-research?

CQ Researcher

PPT_Review of Choosing an Organization

HD1_Decision Making Flow Chart

HD2_Practice with AU (KEY)