Research Process

8th Grade Career Study Model for Grade Level

Students

Topic

Careers This topic is way too broad to

cover in one year, let alone in one research paper, so we have to make it a more specific topic.

Narrow the Topic

Careers in the Medical Field (this is still too broad a topic as it encompasses hundreds of authors).

Chose one specific medical field career to focus your research on.

For example: Pediatric Nurse

Statement of Controlling Purpose

The purpose of this research is to outline my chosen career path in Pediatric Nursing noting the criteria and high school /college or post-college education requirements to become a Pediatric Nurse focusing on the specific the monetary and geographical opportunities available or limited for me.

Note that this statement can be revamped into a thesis statement later to be included in your first paragraph of your research paper.

Guiding Questions

What is a guiding question?

What is the purpose of a guiding question?

What makes a good guiding question?

Questions cannot be

answered with yes or no

too broad

too narrow

vague

opinionated

irrelevant

Questions should be

open ended

clearly stated

relevant

answerable

PURPOSE

Guiding Questions are used to “guide” your research and help you stay on track.

These questions eventually should help you form your thesis.

Your thesis contains specific examples that support your statement of controlling purpose.

Irrelevant Model Questions

What beaches can I work by as a Pediatric Nurse?

What cute doctors can I work with?Where can I get a bumper sticker

about being a Pediatric Nurse?Do Pediatric Nurses have a

slogan?

Relevant Model Questions:

What are the job requirements? Does the job require a high school education?

College education? Post-college eduation (internships or on the job training?)

Which colleges in South Carolina offer the major. If none do, which colleges in the US do?

What does it take to get into the program (at a college)

How much education is required Where are the jobs? What is the salary scale like and are there

benefits? What is the opportunity for advancement? What is the job like on a daily basis?

Pediatric Nursing1. The teacher breaks the class into fours and then paired off in twos within the

group of four.

2. Brainstorm with a partner one relevant guiding question about Pediatric Nursing write it down with your partner.

3. Now turn to your group and share each guiding question that you came up with.

4. Last, try to write two guiding question by yourself about Pediatric Nursing.

5. In a four people group, you should end up with 5 questions total. One for each member the first time and one that you create in the end alone.

Guiding Questions about Genetic Pediatric Nursing

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Prime Questions

Why?Why is Pediatric Nursing such an in

demand career in today’s society? How?How can you help to be proactive right

now in the eighth grade to align yourself with the career goals that you have researched in Pediatric Nursing?

Career Rationale Choose a career Research information on the following topics:

Explanation of job High school education College requirements

Which colleges in South Carolina offer the major. If none do, which colleges in the US do?

What does it take to get into the program (at a college)

How much education is required Post College requirements (internships? On the job

training?) Where are the jobs? Salary Scale, Benefits Opportunity for advancement What is the job like on a daily basis?

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Career Research

Print out the results for at least one of the quizzes and narrow your choices down to three different careers that you would like to pursue.

http://www.umanitoba.ca/counselling/careers.htmlhttp://www.jobguide.thegoodguides.com.au/occupation/searchhttp://www.actstudent.org/wwm/index.htmlhttp://myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html (work interest quiz)http://www.tctc.edu/career_survey/page1.asp (career interest survey)http://career.usajobs.gov/cig/questions.asp (career interest survey)** You are responsible for finding other websites and print sources for your projectMy three career choices are: 1._____________________________ 2. __________________________ 3.

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LexileSearch page

You can search the Lexile Book Database using basic search parameters: Title (including partial titles -- e.g., "moon" when looking for "Goodnight Moon") Author (including partial names -- e.g., "rowl" when looking for Rowling) Lexile Range (allows a variance around a reader's Lexile measure) Keywords (searches both the book's title and its description) ISBN (allows you to target a specific title)

MLA Citation Maker

This website will be a major aid to you after you have conducted your research and gathered your information on your Source Information Form. You just select what type of source you would like to create a citation for and you plug in data. The citation maker puts all of the information in the correct order with punctuation. Of course you need to also practice this without the website. This is just a great place to double check your work.

Possible end result(focus of the research)

How will the research that you have done on Pediatric Nursing shape your outlook on what you have to accomplish and the path you need to begin right now?

THESIS STATEMENT The purpose of this research is to

outline my chosen career path in Pediatric Nursing noting (*A, B, C) the criteria and high school /college or post-college education requirements to become a Pediatric Nurse focusing on the specific the monetary and geographical opportunities available or limited for me.

*A, B, C are the specific prerequisites in order to obtain the credentials for the chosen profession.