- What were your initial search terms?
- How did the terms evolve? Why?
- Which databases did you consult?
- Why did you choose those?
- Say where each of your scholarly sources comes from (i.e. the names of the journals) and why each source is scholarly.
- Say where each of your non-scholarly sources comes from (i.e. the name of the news outlet) and why each source is credible. Remember to BE SPECIFIC: use the CRAAP test criteria and strategies from lateral reading to explain your answers.
- What were the challenges of finding good information?
- What were the challenges of understanding what you found?
- If you were going to use this annotated bibliography to write a research paper, what do you think that your claims would be?
- How would the evidence from these sources help you to support those claims?
- Who might be interested in your findings? (i.e. teachers, professors, students, the general public, parents, professionals in a particular field, others?)
- What more would you like to know about this topic? What other kind of research would you need to do?
- What’s something that you learned from this project that you can apply the next time you have to do research?
- What, if anything, would you do differently next time?
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