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• What is your research question(s)?

• Date and time spent for each of your research sessions

• Keywords you use for each search; how you determined them.

• Tools: databases, search engines, reference from other source, etc.

• List author, title, and the link to the source for each result you consulted / read / or determined as useful

• Notes for each source, recording what you thought was useful / interesting; including quotes, paraphrases, data, etc. that contributes to your learning.

• For each research session, a reflective summary of what you did, how it contributed to your learning about your issue, and what you plan to do in your next research session. (Include information about how / why you added research questions or changed them; about what new search terms you will try or did try, and why; about how you might use the information you have found or how it adds to your knowledge about your issue (Anything new? How does it relate to what else you are learning? etc.) In addition / finally, for each of these reflective summaries, explain / explore how the work you did relates to / connects with / illustrates one or more of the 6 Information Literacy concepts (At least the ones we have read so far).

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Making Connections...

• As you research, read, and learn about your focus, you will begin to identify its parts, and the connections among the parts.  In addition, as you identify and read more sources, you'll begin to recognize how they relate to one another, as if they were in conversation-agreeing, expanding, disagreeing, offering different perspectives, etc.

• Regularly, as you engage in more research, you will be looking at this bigger picture and writing about these connections or developing a mind map or a visual concept map.  In other words, you will be developing a fuller understanding of your focus, identifying its scope, its parts, and their connections.​

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