This research process takes many steps. At the beginning of the unit, we started by looking through all the resources we had in class to begin to get an idea of something that interested us. Next, we created a research-able question to investigate. After that, Mr. Callaway showed us a tool called Citelighter. Citelighter helped us to take notes on the topic we were researching. Later, we exported the notes we took in to Google Doc. Using our notes, we typed up a research report on our topic. We did some editing, and eventually, we finished our research report.
Citelighter is not a website but an extension on the computer that helped us take our notes. It helped us because it was quicker to take notes, all we had to do was hit the blue capture button and it would put a research sentence into a note. It also sorted out all of our notes so that we could see them clearly. If our notes were on paper, it would be harder to organize it. With Citelighter, it made note taking easier. Citelighter let us export our notes to Google docs and that let us type our research paper.
If I could change one thing with my research report, I would change how I took the notes to put in. Next time I want to have not as many things that were not in my own words and more things that were in my own words. Another thing I would change is the order of the paragraphs. Next time I want to have a timeline explaining in what part of time these events on my research report happened. Those were two things I would change if I had the chance.
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