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Exposition: Non-Fiction Writing Research Assignment: The Information Cycle

TEENS AND CELL PHONES -- OR -- TEENS AND BALANCING SCHOOL WITH WORK: This guide will assist Exposition students work through the research process and write the best argumentative paper involving the choice between the two topics.

The Information Cycle Defined

Tutorial from Yavapai College Library, Prescott, Arizona

The Information Search Process & How It Makes You Feel

Completing a Research Project can bring about feelings of anxiety as well as other emotions.  Click on image above to understand the feelings you experience as you go through your project.

Image reference:  Information Search Process Experiences.  Experience map format based on Experience Map by Tyler Tate, http://tylertate.com/

 

An Event Occurs

Day Of
Source: Newspaper/Internet
Action: Event is reported.
References: None
  
Next Week
Source: Magazine
Action: Events and aftermath analyzed.
References: Unlikely
   
Next Month
Source: Journal
Action: Event analyzed and more fully examined.
References: Included (based on writings from the preceding month and/or writing that links the event to a broader context)
  
Next Year
Source: Book
Action: Event analyzed, examined, explored, refined, and contextualized.
References: Included (based on previous year’s writing and analysis will be more specific to the actual event)
 
Next Few Years
Source: Reference and Government publications
Action: Event fully "percolated" and authenticated
References: Included (based on several years' worth of writings and will be extermely specialized to the event)
 
Reference:
Hunt, Fiona, and Jane Birks. More Hands-On Information Literacy Activities.
New York: Neal-Schuman, 2008. 120. Print.