For the discussion this week, you will discuss the steps of the research process. Specifically, you'll be sharing how your process went as you established a topic and then completed the research for your annotated bibliography.

• Who is your audience?
• What was your thesis statement?
• Explain how you conducted your productive online searches using academic databases in the Herzing library.
  • What were your Boolean operators?
  • How did you use limiters to yield better results?
  • What databases did you use?
• What is CRAAP?
  • How did you determine if your sources were suitable using CRAAP?
  • As you sort through your sources, which CRAAP criteria did you use most?
• Which resources proved most helpful to you as you conducted your research and compiled your annotated bibliography?
• What challenges did you meet during the process, and how did you overcome them?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.