First, you develop and narrow down your topic -- the general idea of what you're going to be researching.
From that, you need to develop your research question, i.e. what is the question you are attempting to answer by doing your research?
This, in turn, will form the basis for your paper's thesis (your claim/argument/answer), which you'll explicitly state in your introduction.
Fake news as free speech:
Despite the focus on the ills of social media, the phenomenon of fake news can be observed throughout history from medieval distortions of people in foreign lands, to publications during the contentions Adams presidency in the early republic, to the yellow journalism of the 1890s that fomented the Spanish-American War.
The latest research tool for LSC-UP students is PowerNotes. Assignments often require students to learn more, to search for, evaluate and select information. The next step is gaining new knowledge through reading what you find. And then...
PowerNotes unifies the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating, outlining, tracking and citing research into a single, efficient workflow that feeds directly into the writing process.
Create your account. Install an extension for your browser (see the video for instruction).
When you are inside an information source, open up PowerNotes and the turn on the PN extension.
From source to source your captures and notes are on the platform. Ready, set, go!
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