Plan: Form Guiding Questions

Your teacher has assigned a project - how do you start?

Write a statement of purpose - a sentence that you write, which states, in some detail, what you want to learn about in your research project.  Here's help!

    http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/09_writing_state_of_purp.asp

Write a question for your research which will be your main question.  This is called a guiding question. This will help guide your research.  Keep referring back to this question to make sure you are on the right track.  After you have written the guiding question, write subtopics you may want to research to help support the guiding question.  Some things to think about are:

• What types of sources or materials should you use?
• How many research sources do you need?
• What are your choices for research sources?
• What keywords will you use?
• When is your project due?

As you find information for your project, don't forget to keep asking:

• Does this information answer your original questions?

• Revise and redefine your questions, as needed.

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