5.3: The Assignment Practicing Inquiry Based Research Questions — Read

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SLO-Conduct inquiry-based research by formulating research questions, identifying a variety of sources (e.g., utilizing internet and library resources, such as scholarly sources), and evaluating and integrating sources into writing, including using sources as evidence in researched arguments.

Activity: Complete in research notebook. Using the categories that you learned about, create questions for each category using your research topic. If you completed the lesson on finalizing a topic, you can look through the questions you already have and copy them next to a category that best fits. Once you are finished, all categories should have at least one question.

Here are the categories again.

Definitions
Conversations
People
Disciplines
Impact and Place
Trends

Assessment Tool: Student Survey-Formative Assessment

Do you feel like you are ready to develop a research question? Yes, No, Maybe. Explain why. Be sure to add what else you think you need to move forward.

For students that responded no, work with a tutor on the next step which is writing the official research question.

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