Beginning Our Research and Inquiry Experiences with Pre-Searching

We formally began our first steps into our fall research experience with Ms. Rust’s 12 British Literature/Composition Honors students by giving thema few days to pre-search their initial lists of topics of interests. We introduced the research guide and took a few minutes to discuss the purpose of pre-searching and to encourage them to exhaust as many of the databases and search engines in the guide; we also told students they could explore information sources they knew would be meaningful (...