Smart Searching / Annotated Referece Pages

For our time in the lab today, each team will work together to complete the Smart Search Planner. Work together on the hard copy version I give you first. When you're done with this, have your "captain" upload a copy to Google Docs, share it with your teamates (and me), then the team can split up the duties of completing the online document. It should go quickly if you share the work. Now you'll have access to this no matter where you are.

Once you're done with the planning, I'd like you to access ProQuest and begin your research. The goal is to find 8-10 resources that help you answer the larger research question and smaller subtopic questions you've identified in your planner. Read the articles critically, keeping in mind that in your Annotations of these sources are just that: a critical summary of the source with a description of how you plan to use it. Please understand the difference between a mere summary and an annotation.

This Annotated Refereces assignment is due next week, on Wednesday in class. Please consult the rubric. There's no excuse for NOT doing well on this if you follow these guidelines.

Finally, a word about the dreaded "note cards". I'll give you the option of doing this in a digital document (like a Word document) or on note cards. I know this seems tedious, but it is a step in scholarly research that you need to be familiar with. I'll dispense with the 40+ requirement ... as long as I see good evidence of critical note taking ... as long as you still identify the category (HO, CTP, CD, WC) and type of use (paraphrased or direct quote). Deal?

By the way, here's the link to the overview we did in class the other day: MST Research Overview