more questions than answers: finding sources for food, self & culture

More Questions Than Answers:Finding Resources for your Assignment

Nicole BranchEnglish 2A

April 11, 2016

Please sit with your groups!

Image courtesy of Flickr user Aftab Uzzaman.

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.

Research Process

Topic

Keywords

BackgroundSearch

Refine

Questioning Your Topic

Questions can:

• Help narrow your topic

• Reveal different aspects of your topic

• Help focus your message

College-age voting

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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

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

Keyword Development

Image courtesy of Joshua Vossler.

Books

• Library catalog

• OSCAR

• Exploring book content

Finding Articles

• OneSearch

• Types of sources

• Exploring by subject

Finding Images

Image from Creative Commons- A Shared Culture.

Image Sources

• Flickr

• ArtStor

• AP Images

Questions?

Nicole Branchnbranch@scu.edux5436