Summary of Class 02: You shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the basic information about the issue of your choice. We also explored methods to transition the research from basic information to specific cases or causes related to your issue.

Finding Research: Successful Presentation or Paper

Samples of Chuo Students’ IRD PowerPoint Presentations

Homework is due on Friday at 1 pm before class 03. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “第 3 回 Cycle 3 sharing research notes 2: Causes.”

Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what the Causes of Your Issues are. Then take three to four pages of notes for each reading or viewing, using the keywords on the pages. Remember to include the author’s name(s), date, and page or paragraph numbers in your notes when using direct quotations. Also, the URL is very convenient to include and search later from the Google Doc. These actions will help you avoid copying and pasting when note-taking and summarizing in your own words, or using quotation marks to highlight the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary. 

Moreover, here are the links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:

Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion

Learning About Global Issues

Note-taking on Age Discrimination

Note-taking on a Right to an Education

Instructions for APA

A Very Quick Guide APA 7th

APA 7th Edition Quick Guide

Free Database Engines off-campus to collect research for your APA research: 

New! Zenbird Media: Topics & Issues: Do you often think about researching issues related to your local community, or Japan in general, but find the data in the Japanese language? Then, Zenbird Media is for you!

Carrot 2: Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, treemap, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open-access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free, including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidence for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.

Google Scholar: Google Scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also enables you to cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA!

CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world, giving free access to information that is very informative and easy to understand.

Learning About Global Issues–Specifically in relation to Chuo University Faculty of Law English courses. The team hopes that this website is helpful for students and other people in Japan (and in other countries) to develop our knowledge and critical understanding of different global issues.