This guide was designed to help you with the research process for Modern World Civilization.  Please use the blue tabs to navigate through the guide.

Handouts:

1. Final Project:  Contemporary World Problems
2. Taking Notes: Knowing Where Each Idea and Word Comes From

Instructor:

Dr. Michelle Marshman
Office:  BI 67

mmarshman@greenriver.edu

Phone: 253-833-9111 ext. 4384

Office Hours, Spring, 2010
Mon & Tues 12:00-2:00pm,
W 1:00-2:00pm

Librarian:

Jennifer Rohan

jrohan@greenriver.edu

Phone: 253-833-9111 ext. 2103

The research process includes the following steps. Sometimes you complete one step before moving onto the next. However, there are many times when you will need to return to a previous step or complete multiple steps simultaneously.  Research doesn't always move forward in a straight line.  Research can be messy! 

Step 1. Develop a topic
Selecting a Topic | Develop Research Questions | Identify Keywords |
Identify Stakeholders | Find Background Information | Refine a Topic

Step 2. Locate information
Find Books | Find Articles | Find Websites | Search Strategies

Step 3. Evaluate and analyze information and sources
Evaluate Sources | Primary v Secondary Sources | Types of Periodicals

Step 4. Use, organize and communicate information
Notetaking | Paraphrasing

Step 5. Comply with legal, ethical and moral standards
Plagiarism | MLA Citation Style | Works Cited Examples | Copyright

Note:  The interests of stakeholders often shape and define a topic historically and continue to influence the future identification of problems and their possible solutions. Stakeholders describe a topic using language relevant to their discourse or discipline. Stakeholders may be individuals; e.g., artists or bloggers, but are usually understood as large, powerful groups; e.g., corporate, governmental or even academic with the most to gain or lose.

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