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