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FYS Adventure: Start

 

Welcome to

Choose Your Own [Research] Adventure

Today we will be going on a grand adventure through the library.

 

Our adventure will progress through the stages indicated on the tabs at the top of the page. Each stage must be completed in order.

The first stage is preparing your team for the expedition...

 

Step 1: Name your adventure team.

All great adventure teams have great names. What is yours?

Open the workbook to record your team's information.

Step 2: Select your character.

The five characters are below. Joe, Quincy, Anne, and Julia are required for all teams. If you have a group of two or three, one or two of you should cover two roles. Specialist Sam only joins in for groups of five.

 

General Joe

General Joe would be more accurately described as Generalist Joe, but we all know that it's cooler to be the General, so we won't burst his bubble.

Joe tends to keep his searches as simple and easy as possible. He doesn't look too far into things. He usually takes the first option that sounds like it might work.

 

 

Quick Quincy

Quick Quincy has limited time to do his research, so he tries to find his sources as fast as possible. Did he leave his project until the night before it was due? Maybe. But if he did, it was because he had reasons. Really good reasons.

Quincy picks one or two things to focus on for his searches. He doesn't cut corners, he prioritizes.

 

 

Academic Anne

Academic Anne is ready to tackle her first research project. She listened to the librarian and is determined to conquer the databases. That's where the scholarly sources are and she is going to find them!

Anne is very focused on finding scholarly sources. No other sources need apply. Peer-review or bust.

 

 

Judicious Julia

Judicious Julia is pretty comfortable with doing research. This isn't her first project and it won't be the last. How far away is graduation again? She's not counting the days.

Julia is very thorough with her research. And by thorough, we mean she likes to gather a lot of sources, before finding the exactly perfect one.

 

 

Specialist Sam

Specialist Sam enjoys a good challenge. The type of person who likes puzzles. They were probably on the math team back in high school. We love that for them.

Sam is a technical searcher. If there are filters, filters will be used. No detail is too small to be uncovered.

 

Step 3: Gather supplies.

Select the "Supplies" tab at the top of the page to continue.