1. Research topic

For eg,

"Relationship between Vitamins and health"

2. Questions delivered from the research topic.

For eg, questions delivered from this research topic may be

"What are Vitamins?"
"How do Vitamins help maintaining health?"
"What will happen if there is an excess amount of Vitamins?"

3. Identifying keywords from the questions.

For eg,

"What are Vitamins?"
Keywords: Vitamins

"How do Vitamins help maintaining health?"
Keywords: help, maintaining, health

"What will happen if there is an excess amount of Vitamins?"
Keywords: happen, excess

I have already talked about identifying keyword in the second class
meeting. You may refer to your notes.

4. Predicting what sources are required. Justify your answer.

For eg,
Sources you might need may be the followings.
periodics,
magazines,
newspapers,
personal diaries,
interviews,
web directories
... ...

State sources you THINK you will need. And, explain why you think you
will need these sources.

5. Time-critical information required? Why?
It depends on the topic your choose. If you choose a history topic,
probably, you don't need any time-critical information. For eg, you
don't
need time critical information about the Independent War. Books
published
50 years will still be helpful.

However, if you are doing a research on a scientific topic. Books or
other research that you are referring might have already been obsolete
or even proven to be wrong. In this case, time-critical information
matters.

6. For each source, is it a formal/information source?
Sources provided by professional such as ACM and IEEE are formal.
Sources such as entertainment magazines are regarded as informal.

For each of your sources, classify them to be formal or informal.

7. For each source, is it primary or secondary?
Primary sources are delivered by a person or matter directly. For
examples, diaries, interviews, letters or experimental raw data.
Secondary sources are produced by someones else on a person or matter.
For examples, books and articles.

For each source, judge whether it is a primary source or a secondary
source.