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Research: The Beginning. Ms. Lee Downtown Magnets High School 2011. Choose a Topic. Make sure your topic is not too general. For example, the Industrial Revolution is too broad a topic, and needs to be narrowed.
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Research: The Beginning Ms. Lee Downtown Magnets High School 2011
Choose a Topic • Make sure your topic is not too general. • For example, the Industrial Revolution is too broad a topic, and needs to be narrowed. • Choose the topics that interest you most. You’ll be researching this topic for about five weeks!
Create a Controlling Purpose What is the purpose of your research? • Carefully read your research instructions and consider what you are being asked to do. • Write 1-2 sentences that tells what you want to accomplish with your topic. • Use key words like evaluate, synthesize, analyze, persuade.
Your Prompt Write an essay in which you examine how capitalist industrialization has affected one aspect of our world, both historically and today. • How many parts are there to this prompt? • What do you have to do? • How can you turn the prompt into questions?
Controlling Purpose - Example Write an essay in which you examine how capitalist industrialization has affected one aspect of our world, both historically and today. • Topic – Coal Mining’s Effect onMiners • How has capitalism affected the way we mine for coal? • How have these methods of mining affected miners?
Controlling Purpose - Example Write an essay in which you examine how capitalist industrialization has affected one aspect of our world, both historically and today. • Topic – Coal Mining’s Effect onWorkers • The purpose of my research paper is to analyze how capitalism has affected the methods used for mining coal and how these methods have affected the lives of miners throughout history.
Write your Controlling Purpose Statement You may use this sentence starter: • The purpose of my research paper is to analyze how capitalism has affected ________ and how ________ has affected ________ throughout history.
Create Focus Questions • One topic can take ages to research, so you need to narrow your focus. • For example, one could spend years researching how the Industrial Revolution affected the environment. But you could narrow your research by focusing on how coal mining affectedminers.
Create Focus Questions • You will research the cause and effect of two main subtopics: • Capitalism’s effect on your topic • Your topic’s effect on our lives • Brainstorm questions or specific areas of focus for both subtopics. • Include at least THREE focus questions for each subtopic.
Create Focus Questions • Capitalism’s Effect on Coal Mining • What are the economic benefits of coal mining? • What methods of mining have been used and why? • Who has benefited from these methods? • Coal Mining’s Effect onMiners • How has it affectedminers’ health? • How has it affectedminers’ safety? • How has it affectedminers’ wealth?
Locate Sources • Secondary Sources – at least nine • Introducing Capitalism • World History textbook • Internet Sources • history websites, encyclopedias (not Wikipedia!), educational institutions, newspapers, magazines, etc. • Primary Sources – at least one • Interviews • Autobiographies • Memoirs
Begin Researching! • Evaluate which sources are most reliable and appropriate. • Create Works Cited Cards • Take notes using Note Cards. • Label your Note Card with your focus aspects or questions.
