Reflecting on the Research Process

On a separate sheet please reflect on the challenges and successes you faced during the research process. Make reference to each of the categories below, but focus on those issues that are most relevant to you.

Planning: Reflect on the process of focusing your research. What challenges did you encounter in developing a question, hypothesis, or thesis?

Gathering: Describe any problems or successes you had as you searched. Did any particular search strategies work well or disappoint you? Which databases and search engines worked well? What were the major barriers to your search for balanced and credible resources?

Organizing: How did you ensure that your information comprehensively addressed the question, hypothesis, or thesis? How and why did you modify your original question, hypothesis, or thesis? What strategies did you use to reorganize the information? Did these strategies lead you to connections, patterns, etc.?

Documenting: Did any issues arise as you documented your sources?

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