Chapter 3 in the Bedford Researcher was all about how we can develop our research question. The book offered a lot of help when it came to that and really helped from step 1 all the way throughout. It helped get your bearings when it mentioned to reflect on your writing situation and then helped refine the question with the "who, what, where, why, and when". Adding those to potential research questions would be very helpful. This chapter also brought up a research proposal and how to go about writing that up. The Bedford Researcher went through the different parts of a research proposal and broke down each section to help us better understand.
Chapter 6 in the Bedford Researcher brought up taking noted and how to manage information. With this sort of project you are gonna be coming across a lot of information and this chapter was all about how to make taking notes easier and also how to manage all of the different notes you take and process the information that is coming at you. The first thing it brought up was how to save and organize print and digital information. It listed a lot of helpful tools but i think some of the best ways are using dividers and different folders for print info and using your phone to keep track of notes for digital info. It also went through the steps of how to take notes. The steps were:
1. Choose a method and use it consistently
2. Quote directly
3. Paraphrase
4. Summarize
5. Record your reactions and impressions
6. Compare sources
7. Classify sources
8. Plan your document
These simplified steps made taking notes a whole lot easier and made it seem like much less of a daunting task. The last thing this chapter went over was creating a bibliography to organize information you collect. It went through how to start a working bibliography and keep that up as you research. It also showed how to turn that into an annotated bibliography.
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