Great to see you all again! Today in class we will be starting our research methods lesson. This will introduce you to the core methods, methodologies, and procedures for conducting academic research. This is a skill that you should be able to master with concentrated effort, it will also be a great asset to those of you who are planning on taking AP classes in the future (as many AP classes require some degree of academic research!). Hope you are ready for another week of work! Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objective:
- Discuss the process of research with an emphasis on source types and search engine usage
- History Today
- Prompt: Research
- What do you know about the best practices for research?
- Discuss: Research Practices
- Types of Sources
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
- Validity of sources
- Popular vs scholarly
- Peer-reviewed
- Wikipedia conundrum
- Using a search engine
- How to search
- Plagiarism
- Defined
- Tips for avoiding
- Citations and Paraphrasing
- Creating Works Cited
- Close
- Prompt: S-T-O-P
- Summarize the information covered today by completing the following sentences:
- We Started the lesson with….
- The Topic was….
- Opportunities to practice were …
- The Purpose of the lesson was….
Homework:
- NONE
