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#1 Identify and Develop Your Topic

The Seven Steps of the Research Process. #1 Identify and Develop Your Topic. View of Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts . 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. Found my topic while on vacation. Walden Pond State Reservation, MA.

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#1 Identify and Develop Your Topic

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  1. The Seven Steps of the Research Process #1 Identify and Develop Your Topic

  2. View of Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts. 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. Found my topic while on vacation Walden Pond State Reservation, MA

  3. Poopin’ Around Town. 2007. Photograph. Walden Pond toilet. Web. 18 July 2012. Energy-related topic? Waterless Toilet

  4. Think of your topic in the form of questions

  5. How do waterless toilets work & how are they odorless? State your topic as a question

  6. The Seven Steps of the Research Process #2 Find Background Information

  7. Background Info Sign in the bathroom at Walden Pond Watt Now. 2011. Photograph. Recycling. Clivus New England. Web. 18 July 2012.

  8. Encyclopedias

  9. The Seven Steps of the Research Process #3 Use Catalogs to find Books and Media (like DVDs)

  10. Use Catalogs like Carnegie Library to find Books and Media

  11. The Seven Steps of the Research Process #4 Use Indexes to Find Periodical Articles

  12. Use Indexes to find periodical articles What does this mean? Magazine & journal & newspaper articles find them in RESEARCH DATABASES Trees at Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts. 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. • Academic OneFile • GreenFILE

  13. recycle human waste plumbing sewage disposal water conservation wastewater treatment system composting toilet TOILET sanitation urinal biological decomposition futurist toilets waterless latrine

  14. The Seven Steps of the Research Process #5 Find Internet Resources

  15. Composting toilet blog Watt Now blog Internet Resources Search box: How do waterless toilets work? Try searching Scirus

  16. The Seven Steps of the Research Process Would you wear this dress? Would you use that website? Mannequin at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston. 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. # 6 Evaluate What You Find

  17. The Seven Steps of the Research Process # 7 Cite what you find using a standard format MLA format

  18. Works Cited Mannequin at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston. 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. Poopin’ Around Town. 2007. Photograph. Walden Pond toilet. Web. 18 July 2012. Trees at Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts. 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. View of Walden Pond, Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts. 2012. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file. Watt Now. 2011. Photograph. Recycling. Clivus New England. Web. 18 July 2012.

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