Create an essential question & Write an introduction.

You spent the first week identifying your topic and running some searches for newspaper, magazine, journals, reference sources.
  • You evaluated what you found with article evaluation criteria.
  • You spent some time looking at other types of pathfinders and evaluated those.
  • Today you will be honing and refining your work by:
    • Creating an essential question that you want your research to answer.
    • Writing an introduction to your own pathfinder. The pathfinder is a research guide you create to guide others who are interested in the same topic.
  1. Look through the article evaluation sheets you filled out and the 3-2-1- questions you wrote (you can print them out).
  2. Read through everything you wrote.
  3. Begin by identifying what the most interesting things you found - and what your want to find out more about. This draft of your introduction is to describe the scope of your research on your topic.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

HOMEWORK: Using your essential question - write a short introduction describing your topic and what you have found (five sentences minimum.)