Scott+-+Modified+Synthesis+Research+Assignment



Your task is primarily to conduct research on your topic while learning about how and why a research library functions. You will have already selected a topic to help focus your research, and your job is now to select documents that represent a wide variety of academic sources as well as a wide variety of view-points concerning your topic.
 * Synthesis Essay Prompt Research Assignment— **

By the end of the second day in the library, hopefully, you will have located and collected a minimum of seven documents to work with. Here are some criteria for choosing your final six sources.

• One of your documents needs to be a // visual text // (i.e. a photograph, a piece of art, an advertisement, a political cartoon, a chart, a graph, a table, a map, etc.) • One of your documents needs to be // a blog // —an internet based web-log. Please note however that only two of your source documents overall can be internet based. This does not include documents that were originally published as print documents that you printed off from an on-line database. This restriction is only limited to documents published to the internet as websites. • At least one of your documents needs to come from a //[|scholarly journal].// • At least one of your documents needs to come from a [|newspaper article] —this may include hard news, feature, or editorial style articles. // ** For both scholarly journal and newspaper ** **articles, try [|Ebsco databases.]** **Try the first link "HS Students Search Everything"!**  //

• One of your documents needs to come from // a report // or piece of // legislation // —this may be a government document (local or national), a laboratory research report, etc, Look for a source that includes significant data and/or statistics concerning your topic, but also look for one that is digestible. //Try the links below for government documents.//
 * [|Government Made Easy]
 * [|Federal Digital System]
 * [|National Archives]

Other than the internet restriction, your last three documents can come from anywhere. You may, for instance, choose to “double up” on documents from scholarly journals or newspaper articles, or you might choose to be creative and look for cultural sources like transcripts to television or radio shows, excerpts from speeches, sermons, group charters or mission statements, novels, movies, song lyrics, etc.

A few items to consider when selecting your documents:
 * 1) Copy or print off the entire document—within reason. Digital copies are preferred.
 * 2) Write down all of the source information pertaining to your document! You will be required to properly cite your source in an annotated bibliography.
 * 3) Bring your thumb drive and cash for the copy machine for the second day.

East is participating in an [|EBSCO Points View of Reference Center Trial] through May 16, 2014.
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