Form 8815 Topic 2022-2023

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Meet Jenny Jenny has a research project due in a few days she picked a topic when her professor first assigned the project she chose her favorite TV show bridezillas it seemed like a good idea but now that she's doing her research she's having a lot of trouble finding sources she's freaking out Jenny's problems started with her mental model of the research process which she sees as a one-way street like many students Jenny thinks that once a project is assigned she should pick her topic right away then she can move on to finding sources and reading through them and once she has all her sources she can start writing her paper but the research process is a lot messier than that and picking your topic is intertwined with finding and reading sources and writing and editing your paper picking your topic is research when you first pick a research topic it isn't set in stone it's just an idea that you test with some exploratory research if it looks good you find and read some more sources at this point you might find that the published research leads you away from your original topic that's okay you can let the research you find guide you and tweak your topic a bit and by the time you've gone through this cycle of you times you may find that you have enough sources to start writing and editing your paper even then as you're writing you may find that you need to pull in additional pieces of information and you may return to the research cycle so let's wind back the clock for Jenny bringing her back to the day her professor assigned this project and allow her to do it again with this research model again Jenny...