tutoring and the research process
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Information Seeking BehaviorsTRANSCRIPT
Tutoring & The Research Process
Your Process
Research Process Exercise
What is research?
• Research is about discovery, actively evaluating concepts, and developing new ideas; it involves the synthesis and integration of existing information to draw new conclusions and develop original ideas.
“Information Seeking Behaviors”
Dervin’s Sense Making Model
Bates’s Berrypicking Model
Puzzle Wheel
Smith’s Optimally Productive Conception of Writing
Your Visual Representation
Research Process Exercise
Spink’s Information Behavior
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/692304330
Information Behavior Sub-processes
• Consists of six inter-related behaviors
• Developed from a number of research areas:
– Cognitive science
– Psychology
– Biology
Information Seeking
Sense Making
Information Foraging
Information Searching
Information Organizing
Information Using
Research Analysis for Tutors
Information Seeking
• Assignment awareness & analysis
• Expressing what they don’t understand
• Acknowledging that what they already know is insufficent
Sense Making
• Topic Narrowing
• Thesis Development
• Engaging Interest
Information Foraging
• Where to look?
• Research Databases? Reference Texts? Kent-Link? Ohio-Link?
• Google? Wikipedia?
• Reference Desk?
http://www.library.kent.edu/page/10078
• Reference desk for writing questions?
Information Searching
• Navigating Sources
• Boolean Operators
• Evaluating Information
http://www.library.kent.edu/page/10078
Information Organizing
• Outlining/Structuring
• Determining which information is useful
• Classical/Toulmin/Rogerian Arguments?
• Simply why this first and that second?
Information Using
• Writing the paper
• Assembling the bibliography
• Integrating quotations
• Using synthesis words
Mapping Your Research
Research Process Exercise
• Information Seeking
• Sense Making
• Information Foraging
• Information Searching
• Information Organizing
• Information Using
• Student Handbook
Thank You! (and thank you, Dr. Spink)