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RESEARCH (Starting research (Consider a rhetorical situation (Genre…

- - - - Who will be reading your research? What are their expectations?
    - - Why are you writing about this topic? What are you trying to accomplish by this research?
    - - Argument
      - Narrative
      - Analysis
      - Report
    - - What is your attitude towards the topic? How do you want your audience to see you?
    - - What other research has been done in this area?
    - - What media will be most appropriate for your audience and purpose?
    - - Will you include any design elements, such as illustrations, graphs, charts, using headings?
- - - - General reference sources
        
        Encyclopedias
        
        Dictionaries
        
        Almanacs
        
        Atlases
      - Specialized encyclopedias and wikis
      - Bibliographies
      - Directories and indexes
    - - Print
      - Online
    - - Journal articles
      - Magazine and news articles
  - - - Original documents or materials
      - Firsthand accounts
      - Field research
        
        Interviews
        
        Observations
    - - Scholarly books
      - Journal articles
      - Magazine and newspaper reviews
      - Government research reports
      - Annotated bibliographies
    - - Articles
      - Books
      - Conference papers
      - Certain websites, provided by authorities
    - - Popular magazine articles
      - Popular websites
  - - - Search sites
      - Social media (Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon)
    - - Library websites
      - Library catalogs
      - Databases (general or subject-specific)
  - - - Quotation marks
      - Wildcard searches
      - Truncation
      - Boolean operators
      - Parentheses
      - Plus and minus signs
- - - - Does it sound relevant to your topic?
    - - Are they experts on the topic? What are their credentials?
    - - Can you trust the information? Does the article have a particular agenda?
    - - What kind of organization is sponsoring the site?
    - - Does your topic call for the older or more current sources?
    - - Is it a report or an argument?
    - - Is it cited in other works?
    - - Does it look academic?