Welcome to Roosevelt STAY Library Central: RESEARCH PROCESS

Reflect

• Evaluate your process and your product
• What did you do well?
• What would you change?
• Take a moment to celebrate.

Present information

• Prepare your final product 
• If audiovisual - Check technology
• If oral presentation - Rehearse
• Present the product to your audience

Package Information

• Decide the medium/media that best communicates the information
• Prepare a first draft of a written paper/speech or a script/storyboard
• Revise your first draft (use peer reviewers, a librarian or  teacher to help you). Revise again, if necessary
• Prepare a works cited

The University of Michigan Flint offers a very simple step by step guide to selecting a sufficiently narrow research topic that lends itself to an interesting information product. ENTER HERE.

Developed in 2011, this search process model is a blended adaptation of the AGOPP and Kuhlthau models. The goal is for the user to understand where they are with their assignment by providing a path to completion. For those who can become paralyzed when considering the breadth of a project, this breaks the process down into manageable bytes. There is no required start point though I tend to move clockwise from "Ask".

Note: This process is not required by DCPS but is offered to support projects based learning.

Ask questions

•  Identify your research
•  Read about the issue(s)
• Analyze the topic or problem and develop questions

Gather information

• Gather keywords based on questions
• Choose the best source of information (books, databases, periodicals ,etc.)
• Search for information
• Record notes and bibliographic information in graphic organizer or on note cards

Organize Information

• Summarize your findings
• Draw conclusions and inferences
• Use a graphic organizer or note cards to arrange the information