Part 3: Creating a Strategy
In this section you will learn and practice the steps of creating a strategy for research.
For this lesson, you will follow the steps of research using the topic Plagiarism.
Open the Web Research Guide for Creating a Strategy. You will practice Steps 1, 2, and 4 of research.
- Read the examples for Step1: Formulate Questions. Formulate your own questions for the topic Plagiarism.
- Read the examples for Step 2: List Possible Sources, then complete the step on your worksheet for our topic of plagiarism.
- Complete for Step 4: Identify Keywords -- List key words to use in a search. Use your questions from Step 1 to find possible key words.
Write all answers on your worksheet. - Step 5: Begin your Research. First choose a your search engine. (Refer back to Lesson 1, #3a.)
- Write down the keywords you entered in the search engine.
- Find three sources from your search engine that you think will be useful and write down the urls and page titles.
- Choose a directory to use and write down the directory and its url.
- Using the same keywords, find three sources from a directory and write their url and page titles.
- What is a boolean search and the three types of boolean searches?
- Use a booleen search in the search engine you used (often under advanced search). Write down which fields you entered each word in your boolean search.
- Write down three new possibly useful sources (Page titles and URLs)