What I learned about Scholarly Research

 

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    Another day to visit NCC’s library computer lab room to learn more in depth about research! (Specific research questions to build my specific topics of my essay). I learned a lot today. We learned how to be in depth and more specific about our research question. The introduction started off with a warm up– using Amazon as an example! When we search for something, we all search up specific stuff we want– even add in filters to narrow our search– and we don’t always choose the first option to buy. It’s the same when we research our articles for our rational argument essays. 

    Next, we did a mini activity about creating a question from three different topics (one about place, problem, and something else). My two side desk partners and I all worked together to form one. The topics were interesting and difficult, but we managed to form a question from it. Laruen (one of the librarians who agreed to teach CARD-101 how to do research on NCC’s database library@noctrl.edu)-- would come by every group to check and discuss more about it. When she arrived at our group, we realized that our question was more on the border than specific. So, she helped us make it more specific. It was an interesting activity though. 

    After that activity, it was time to do our own. Everyone was given a worksheet that seemed like an organizer. We were assigned a box in the organizer to write down our own  research question. Then a smaller box with main subtopics and four more additional smaller boxes below– to write down even more specific topics under the subtopics. There are steps on how to start your research on the worksheet. On the back of the worksheet, it shows visual examples as to how to do narrow searching on the database.