• Minimum of seven (7) different college-level search strategies must be tried & listed, and the results yielded by each search strategy must also be described.

Resources:  College-level LIB 127 Informational Research skills & BR Part II: "Collecting Information" search strategies recommended in BR chapters 4, 5, 6, 7.

Directions:  Review Research Proposal Directions for Part 3.B, and use your Research Proposal Part 3B to start a numbered list of search strategies you've used in a new Search Strategies Inventory document.   Then keep adding search strategies and results to your inventory as as regular part of your research/notetaking process.

• A minimum of 7 college-level search strategies must be used and included in your numbered list for a passing grade.  Your goal is to convince Cora that you have college-level informational search skills and that you have used them diligently to locate as many valuable sources on your topic as possible to build a solid research base by Week #7;
• Under each search strategy listed in your Search Strategies Inventory, you must also state the RESULTS. 

SOME EXAMPLES:

• 1.  Knowledgeable person(s) in the field of my research topic: 
  Dr. Mann, an ADD specialist at High Lakes Medical Center.
  Results:  Dr. Mann advised me to review the history of stimulants, and Dexedrine, especially on how they became a treatment for Attention-Deficit Disorder.  He also recommended some web sites, including http://brainresearch.com

  7. World Wide Web Search Engine: Google Scholar
  Results:

  Katz, R.  (2002, May 22).  Attachment to FDA Approval Letter for NDA 21-303/s-001.       

  Catalytica Pharmaceuticals.  Retrieved April 7, 2004, from  FDA: U. S. Food

  and Drug Administration Web Site:

  http://www.fda.gov/cder/foi/label/2002/21303s1lbl.pdf

• 
  11. COCC Library Online Catalog, which includes holdings in
  COCC Library's Reference Collection, yielded one very valuable source.
  Results:  
  American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
  
           Disorders (4^th ed., Text Revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric
   
           Association.
   

• 14. Deschutes Country Public Library Catalog
  Results: I found no useful sources relevant to my topic.

• Minimum of fifteen (15) college-level sources relevant to your research topic and valuable in providing a strong foundation for writing your final Critical Research Paper essay.

Directions:  Review Research Proposal Directions for Part 4, start with the 7+ annotated sources (e.g. copied from your Research Proposal Part 4 and pasted into a new wordprocessing document entitled Annotated Working Bibliography).  Then keep adding sources + annotations as a regular part of your research, review, and notetaking process. Take care to format correctly all sources listed in your Annotated Working Bibliography in your approved documentation style ( e.g. APA or MLA).

• The minimum 15 useful college-level sources on your research topic must be organized alphabetically in the Final Draft of your Annotated Working Bibliography and must convince Cora that you have compiled an adequate research base for writing your Critical Research Paper;
• Complete bibliographical entries formatted in correct APA or MLA style approved for your topic, must be given for each source ordered/listed alphabetically in your Annotated Working Bibliography. DON'T FORGET TO DOUBLE SPACE THROUGHOUT!

• Annotate each source listed with two or three complete sentences that:

  • Identify the type of source (e.g. book, newspaper article, encyclopedia entry, web page or web site, interview with an expert in the field), and

  • Identify the length of the source; and

  • Identify the search strategy used to find the source (this search strategy used should be among those identified in your Search Strategies Inventory); and

  • Briefly summarize the contents of the source, focusing on those aspects of the source most relevant and useful to your research topic, and commenting on the authority/expertise of the author/source.