Background Material:

• Designing Effective Poster Presentations (University of Buffalo: Science and Engineering Library)
• PowerPoint - see the suggested PowerPoint tutorials recommended by the Digital Literacy Closet

Assignment: Prepare a poster or PowerPoint presentation that outlines the strategies, sources, and techniques you used to gather and evaluate information on a research topic in which you have been involved this semester. Your presentation should cover the following areas:

• Statement of your research topic (see Strategies for Research Part 1)
• Analysis of your information need (see Strategies for Research Part 1)
• Your search strategy statement, including keywords and boolean connections (see Strategies for Research Part 2)
• Tools used in your information gathering, including one or more of the following sources
  • Reference works
  • Library catalogs
  • Indexes
  • Government documents
  • Open Internet sources
• Evaluation process for Internet resources, if used (see OWL 7: Evaluating Information Sources)
• Sample citation in the correct style format for your discipline (see OWL 8: How to Cite Your Sources)