SSC 101 Final Assignment: Pathfinder

A Pathfinder documents your research and leads readers through your process of finding the best information on your topic. It guides an interested researcher to sources and describes terms to use to identify information on a particular subject.

Your final project is to construct a Pathfinder on a social science topic of your choice or one related to your linked course. If you are taking the SSC101/ENGL 102 link your research topic should be the same for both courses. Your research will reflect all of the work we do in this class and will draw from the results of your weekly assignments. The assignments you complete for each module should form the basis of each part of your Pathfinder; the Pathfinder will be a sampling of the best materials that you find on your research topic.

The Pathfinder will also reflect what you have learned from your experience identifying and finding material from a wide variety of resources. Use your research journal entries to help you reflect on the importance of each resource and the tools and strategies that were required to find them.

NOTE:  This is not a written, formal research paper. The goal is for you to do all the research you would do in preparation for writing a research paper.

Your Pathfinder will include the following sections.

• Research Statement or Question
• Abstract
• Search Strategies
  
• Evaluated sources with citations
  
• Research Process Journal (at least four, you were assigned three journals during the quarter)
  

Find details for what is expected in each section by downloading the full assignment prompt: SSC101 Final Assignment SP 19_The Pathfinder-5 (2).docx

Look at this example Pathfinder to see what you can pattern your final assignment after Example Pathfinder Final SP 2019-1.docx

Also make sure to review the grading rubric below for details on how you will be graded on this assignment.