Finding and Archiving Resources

After you have decided a topic of interest, your next steps are to find and archive resources on that topic.

Pre-class Tasks

1. Set-up Zotero

Install Zotero on your computer

Please install Zotero on your computer or Mac as well as the Zotero Connector for your browser (Please note that is you have a MAC, the Zotero Connector is automatically installed on SAFARI.

Register as a user for Zotero on Zotero.org

This video shows how to register

Connect your Zotero application with your Zotero Account

Open your Zotero App and see how to connect your account with Zotero

2. Write your topic of interest below

Your topic of interest is something you might potentially write your graduate thesis about

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3. Prepare to Discuss the Main Ideas of 「先行研究の探し方」in 英語教育の研究

Please be ready to answer the following questions:

1. Summarize the three reasons given for reading previous research on your topic.
2. What kind of knowledge do you need before searching for previous research?
3. Describe the four ways given to search for research.
4. What are three ways that we can obtain actual papers or books? (p.48)
5. What are the points for reading previous research?
6. What are ways given for archiving (整理) research?
7. After archiving the research, how do we connect it to our own research topics? (Section 3.3)
8. How do we carry out our own research based on previous research? (Section 3.4)

In-class Tasks

Finding resources

James’ home page has links to sites to find references. Find three sources related to your topic and save them in Zotero.