2.3 Pre-Research

Today's lesson will be:

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Learn effective search techniques to find relevant and reliable information for the chosen topic for research papers.
• Learn solid background information about the chosen topic by doing some research about the problems, existing solutions, new terms and possible organizations. 

PPT_Review of Choosing an Organization

HD1_Decision Making Flow Chart

HD2_Practice with AU (KEY)

Warm-up

1. How often do you look for information in these places?

Google

Yahoo

Wikipedia

U.S. NEWS

New York Times

CQ Researcher

School library

School database

Anything else? ____________________________

2. What kind of information do you find there?

3. Why do we need pre-research? why don't you just start looking for sources in the library database?

4. What information are we trying to gain from pre-research?

Homework

Open your homework from last class. Complete the second part of the handout, finding possible organizations and answering questions on the chart. 

*Name the file "Topic Organization_Your First Name"

*Upload the file on Google Drive>>>Unit1. Pre Research Portfolio

*Due date and time: Oct, 13 (Mon) 2:00pm sharp.