Read and Analyze a Research Prompt

Read and Analyze a Research Prompt

How can I use research to make my fictional or narrative writing better?

Open Ended

What does it mean to do research?

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How can doing research improve my narrative writing?

Teacher's Writing Prompt

Imagine that you have been asked to write a story about surviving an encounter with a lion. One of your guiding research questions is: Where can lions be found in the wild? Read and take notes from two or more sources to answer this question. List the sources of your information.

Source 1: Google Search

I am going to type my question into the google search bar and see what comes up.

Here's what I found, let's check it out...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Where+can+lions+be+found+in+the+wild%3F&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS843US843&oq=Where+can+lions+be+found+in+the+wild%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30i457.1296j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Clickbait?

This first link looks interesting, but it looks a little like clickbait to me, so I'm going to keep scrolling.

I know this site!!!

National geographic is a site I have used before, and I know it has lots of great animal information, so I am going to use this site!

Wait, it's asking too much :(

This site has asked me to put in my email if I want to keep reading! I do not need to sign up to do research. I will just push the back button and use a different site.

World Atlas

All of these sites look like ones with lots of information I could use! I am going to start with World Atlas and try the other sites after.

What information can help me?

I like the graphics on this site. I also see information about lions under the graphics. I am going to write down any information that might answer my question about lions in my notes.

Open Ended

After I take my notes on this site, I will need to remember where I went to find these notes. How can I do that?

Open Ended

After taking notes on one site, I will need to find another site. How can I do this?

Your Research Prompt

Imagine that you have been asked to write a story about surviving an encounter with a wild animal. One of your guiding research questions is: Where can this animal be found in the wild? Read and take notes from two or more sources to answer this question. List the sources of your information.

Open Ended

Which wild animal do you want to write about?

(you can change your mind later about this)

Plan your research

Find information on your research prompt and complete the Go Formative to share this information.

https://goformative.com/formatives/5ff8e681017978a5fcc77d18