Develop your ability to conduct scholarly research and relate the results of this research to a specific inquiry.
Develop your ability to translate specialist information into non-specialist language draft building blocks for the final report.
Answering a research question involves seeking out and processing information that helps you answer that question. This is true whether you are researching insurance plans or conducting academic research. In developing the Library Research Report, you will seek out scholarly articles relevant to your research question, extracting ideas from them that you will later synthesize into a final report (i.e., the final version of your project) and an answerhowever tentativeto your research question.
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This Library Research Report can be seen as a type of annotated bibliography. But please note that your goal in developing this report is not simply to summarize sources; your purpose here is to focus on finding research that is relevant to your research question. As you write your summaries, you will be producing building blocks for the first draft of your Final Research Project. This means that you should be summarizing only content that is directly relevant to your research question. Your writing should also be clear and accessible to non-specialist readers. A carefully constructed Library Research Report will significantly lighten your workload when you reach Week Three, when the rough draft of your Final Research Project is due, since youll be able to construct your draft from writing youve already completed rather than starting from scratch.
Assignment Specifications
Your finished Library Research Report should include:
Your name at the top of the document. (You can follow strict APA if youd like and include a separate title page, but this is not required);
Your research question (at the top of the report);
Complete and correct citations for 4-6 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles
accessed through NU Library databases;
WHO?
Who stands behind the information? Your entry should identify (quickly and concisely) the background/credentials that connect the articles author/s to the topic. (See Lecture 6 in the Week Two Lectures folder) on identifying scholarly sources for guidance and examples: Identifying Sources (Part 2)
WHAT?
Identify a claim (or claims) presented in the article that is relevant to your inquiry. (Remember, your task is not to summarize the entire article, but to summarize the article content that is relevant for your own inquiry. In some cases, of course, the entire article may be directly relevant to your project.)
HOW?
How is the claim supported? How do the authors back up the claim? (Dont go nuts here and summarize every detail of the methodology. Instead, strive for the kind of concise, general summary one might find in a news account of recent research findings.)
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SO WHAT?
What is the relevance of the claim for your inquiry? (Sometimes youll be able to express the what and so what at the same time, in which case you shouldnt try to artificially separate them. Just make sure that your paragraph addresses all of the categoriesWHO, WHAT, HOW, and SO WHAT? And remember that your answer to the so what? question should point to your own research inquiry.)
Tip! If youre having trouble getting started, tackle each of the above questions Who/What/How/So What? one at a time. Before you know it, youll have writtenor at least sketched outyour first paragraph.
Note: Limit your use of direct quotation. Quote only when you need to call attention to key terms or phrases. Use complete sentences, correct spelling and punctuation, etc.
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