Exploring Your Topic &

Focusing it!

1. What is your broad topic?

2. What specific resource(s) will you use to get a topic overview?

(HINT: Use the library catalog to find books, encyclopedias, and Credo Reference)

a) _______________________________
b) _______________________________
c) _______________________________

3) Write three sentences about something you learned about this topic from the
resources you found in Question 2.

4. Write below a proposed new and more focused topic? (HINT: Use InfoTrac Expanded
Academic and/or use the who, what, where, when, and why questions)

5. What terms and their synonyms might you search under?

a) _______________________________ b) _______________________________
c) _______________________________ d) _______________________________
e) _______________________________ f) _______________________________

6. What search strategies & tips will you use and remember?
(HINT: Name the tips you learned during the presentation?)

1) ____________________ 2) ____________________ 3) ____________________

4) ____________________ 5) ____________________ 6) ____________________

7) ____________________ 8) ____________________

7. Website Evaluation A-B-Cs

A= B= C=