Week	Dates	Topic/Activity	Reading/Viewing*	Assignments Due**
1	Jan. 19 – Jan. 25	Introductions Using web 2.0 applications Keeping a research journal	"What Is Web 2.0?"	Research Journal Assignment #1
2	Jan. 26 - Feb. 1	Conducting research Identifying a topic	WG 1, 2 Runaway Universe website Runaway Universe transcript	Research Journal Assignment #2 Discussion #1
3	Feb. 2 - Feb. 8	Exploring a topic Narrowing a topic Developing a research question Bookmarking websites	WG 3	Research Journal Assignment #3 Discussion #2
4	Feb. 9 - Feb. 15	Generating keywords Writing search strings Conducting library research	WG 4 Navigating Library Research***: Units 4, 5, 6, and 7	Research Journal Assignment #4
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* Additional readings may be assigned throughout the semester. WG stands for The Wadsworth Guide to Research. Numbers refer to chapters.
** Each research journal assignment is due by midnight on the last day of the week, which will be on a Monday.
*** Be sure to read all the pages in each unit; to find them, move your cursor over the tab for that unit and then click on the link to the page. There are two tabs labeled "Unit 5"; read the unit on searching databases not evaluating sources.