Lesson 2 Assignment

Exploring Topic Development

I. Research Log Entry (due Monday, January 25, 2008)

Go to your blog and create an entry. This entry should answer the following questions:

1. What was discussed today in class?

2. What points were particularly important to you and why?

3. What change will you make in your approach to research?

4. What other ideas and thoughts do you have about researching the authority of a source, whether it’s news, a web site, or some other information source?

5. What other ideas and thoughts do you have about topic development?

II. Research Log Entry (due Thursday, January 31, 2008)

As you go through your classes this week, think of a topic, how you might formulate a question to explore your topic, and how you might enrich that question. Create a second Resource Log Entry that answers the following:

Trace your thought process as you developed your question. Include these elements:

1. What was your first question?

2. List all the intermediate questions that you formed between the first question and your final question?

3. What approaches and ideas did you implement in each of these stages?

4. How would you evaluate your final question? Is it more complex? Do you think you could continue further with this process and come up with something even more complex?

5. What other questions might help you to continue your exploration?

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