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Effective Research Steps: Mastering Topic Exploration

Learn the essential steps for conducting thorough research on a specific topic, including critical thinking, source evaluation, organization, and composition. Discover how to use primary and secondary sources to create a unique perspective.

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Effective Research Steps: Mastering Topic Exploration

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  1. Research Proper Steps to Researching a Topic

  2. What is Research? • Research requires critical thinking, source evaluation, organization, and composition. • The goal of research is to draw on what others have to say about a topic and use the sources to create a unique perspective on the issue at hand. • Primary and secondary sources must be included when doing research.

  3. Research: What it is Not • Research is not an informed summary of a topic by means of primary and secondary sources. • It is neither a book report nor an opinion piece nor work to write an expository essay consisting only of one's opinion on a particular topic. • It is not a way to just repeat something you have heard or seen!!

  4. Is this a Research-based Project? • Project reporting the best baseball player of all time. Why yes or why no? • Description of the Roman Gods and all their powers. Why yes or why no? • Determining which plants are genetically resistant to metals. Why yes or why not? • Developing a system to in which hockey players always get their pucks within 3 inches of the destination. Why yes or why not? • Recreating an engine. Why yes or why not? • Developing an affordable way for a person to be able to read a book while on the toilet without having to touch it. Why yes or why not?

  5. Research – Step 1 • Choose a topic • Interesting • Challenging • Purposeful and focused

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