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.
Look through the article evaluation sheets you filled out and the 3-2-1- questions you wrote (you can print them out).
Read through everything you wrote.
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.
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.- Look through the article evaluation sheets you filled out and the 3-2-1- questions you wrote (you can print them out).
- Read through everything you wrote.
- 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.
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HOMEWORK: Using your essential question - write a short introduction describing your topic and what you have found (five sentences minimum.)