Lance

 Prompt: Doing the Bibliography has clarified my understanding of my research topic by deepening my source of each source that I have used. My sources connect to each other because they all talk about the causes and effects of population growth around the world and how to prevent.  They are building my argument of how population growth affects the world.  Summary: We continued working on the Annotated Bibliography. Reflection: I learned how to correctly make a Annotated Bibliography. 

 Prompt: The part of the Bibliography that was the most challenging for me was the evaluation part. It was the most challenging part because I didn't know how to tell if a source was credible. This challenge helped me grow as a researcher because it showed how to see if a source is credible. It will help me when writing a research paper because I will know how to tell if a source is credible or not. Summary: We worked on a assignment on writable. Reflection: I learned how to write a Annotated Bibliography.     

 Prompt: The difference I noticed between a lot of my sources were some of them were more factual about population growth by showing the statistics. This helped me understand the magnitude of population growth in some countries. Another difference is some focused more on the affect of overpopulation on the environment. This helped me understand why population growth is a big problem for the Earth. Summary: We talked about different sources. Reflection: I learned about finding the right source.

 Prompt: This is different from how I have searched for information in the past because I would just search up things on Google. I would also use sources that didn't have credible information. Using specific search strategies and evaluating sources has made the quality of the sources I found much more valuable than in the past. Summary: We GALILEO to find sources for our prompts. Reflection: I learned how to research for information the right way.

 Prompt: The president is being criticized in this image. The source suggests that the war against Iran is a distraction to draw attention from ice deporting people from the U.S. The cartoonist wants the audience to question the war against Iran. They also want the audience to question the big beautiful bill. Summary: We worked on finding information in text. Reflection: I learned about finding information in text.

 Prompt: Creating specific search phrases is different from just googling a topic because it gives you more valuable information related to your topic. Also gives you sites that are more credible than Google. This will improve the quality of my research because the information I find will be more credible and valuable than what I find on Google. Summary: We worked on a Commonlit assignment. Reflection: I learned how to identify main and central ideas.

 Prompt: What makes the topic of population growth difficult to answer is finding credible information about it. Two different factors to this topic is lower developing countries having increasing population growth rates and how population growth affects the economy.  Understanding multiple view points about population growth is important because it gives people the full view of a situation going on so they won't be biased. Summary: We find out what our research paper was gonna be about and brainstormed on it. Reflection: I learned more about population growth.