The Personal Research Paper: Preliminary Investigation

Fill out this form below and hand it in or send it by email:

I have read at least chapters 7 – 10 and chapter 14 (the five student examples) of The I-Search Paper by Ken Macrorie, on in-library use only reserve at the ACTC library.

Yes ____   No ____(but I will as soon as I can.)

I have read all of the student research papers online at the English 102 sites and the Voices Electric site.

Yes ____   No _____(but I will as soon as I can.)

The topic for my research paper is ______________________________________.

I am interested in this topic because _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

This is what I already know about the topic: 

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This is what I need to know:

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When I think of my topic, this is the first question that comes to mind:

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I will talk to the following people about my topic:

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I plan on using these resources to add to what I learn from talking to people about my topic: 

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I have already found information from these sources:

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