Following up on your ideas for potential research topics and the questions you came up with last week, this assignment asks you to do some preliminary research on your own, and also to share resources with your classmates. Please make your post to this DB by Thursday, September 30, and give a reply to a classmate’s post by Friday, October 1.
It’s OK if you aren’t certain about your topic yet. This DB is meant to help you move toward choosing a topic. As Ballenger points out in Chapter 1, doing some preliminary research can help you find a topic, in part because you’ll start to see what topics might be the most interesting to you and readily “researchable.”
For this DB, you need to find two research sources (these can be articles/essays, or feel free to find longer sources like books if you want), using two different methods of researching. In other words, you can use Google to find one of your sources, but not both. An easy way to do this is to use keyword searching and find one article via web search (Google) and another article by logging into a library database (either the Edmonds CC library or another public library to which you have access).
Or here’s an even simpler and more direct way to go about this assignment! Meryl Geffner, one of the librarians here at Edmonds CC, has set up a research guide for our class at http://edcc.libguides.com/publish. You can use this guide to find two different sources to use for this DB; you might use two different databases, or maybe one article that Meryl has linked and another article you find in a database search, etc.
For each of the two sources you find, post a brief summary of the source (at least three sentences long) and why the source interests you.
NOTE: In chapters 1 and 2 of The Curious Researcher, the author discusses several different methods of researching a topic. Please read Chapter 1 if you haven’t yet, and start reading Chapter 2 this week as it will give you some ideas in how to effectively research your topic.
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