Process Log Questions

  • 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?