ISearch Paper

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I-Search Paper

• Answering an
• Authentic Question

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What is an Authentic Question?

• You dont know the answer
• You want or need the answer
• It is not too easy to answerit will require
  various resources
• It is researchableinformation is available.

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Sample Topics

• Career
• Education
• Military service
• Where to live
• A major purchase

• A trip
• A serious disease
• Family member
• (biography)
• Pets

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Sample Topics (continued)

• summer or part-time employment
• dating or social issues
• participation in a club, group, team, summer
  activity, special program, service
• finding out how to make, do, or repair something,
  etc.

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Sample Questions

• CareerShould I become an electrical engineer?
• EducationShould I go to BYU?
• Military serviceShould I join the army? Navy?
  Special forces? CIA? FBI?

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Sample Questions (contd)

• Where to liveShould I live at home or at
  college?
• A major purchaseShould I buy an I-Pod or a
  Nintendo Wii?
• A serious diseaseHow will I know if I get
  diabetes and what are the treatments.
• Family memberWhat were the major events of
  grandpas life?

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Quiz

• Is this Question Authenticfor this assignment?
  
• What was my grandmother likeshe died before I
  was born?
• Yes, it is important
• Yes, it is researchable
• You can interview.
• You can look on-line (maybe).
• You can read printed materialjournals, letters,
  etc.

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Section One What I want to find out

• What do you want to find out? Why?
• What do you already know about the subject?
• What else do you assume or imagine?
• What sub-questions will, if answered, help you
  answer your main question?
• How will you find out?

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Sample

• To Be or Not to Be a Studio Musician Dang What a
  Question?