Information Literacy

For the discussion this week, you will discuss the steps of the research process. Specifically, you’ll be sharing how your process went as you established a topic and then completed the research for your annotated bibliography.

  • Who is your audience?
  • What was your thesis statement?
  • Explain how you conducted your productive online searches using academic databases in the Herzing library.
    • What were your Boolean operators?
    • How did you use limiters to yield better results?
    • What databases did you use?
  • What is CRAAP?
    • How did you determine if your sources were suitable using CRAAP?
    • As you sort through your sources, which CRAAP criteria did you use most?
  • Which resources proved most helpful to you as you conducted your research and compiled your annotated bibliography?
  • What challenges did you meet during the process, and how did you overcome them?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.