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Prompt: What strategies have you and your group used to ensure that all members are actively contributing to group assignments? Explain how you communicate, divide responsibilities, and hold each other accountable throughout the process.

 Prompt Response: The strategies we used within our group was dividing the work evenly between everyone in the group. Each person was given the same amount of work to complete within the group. We each communicated with each other to fairly choose who would work on which part of the assignment and agreed upon as a group. Summary: Completed evidence gathering for research project. Reflection: I learned that working together towards a common goal makes work easier. Knowing this will help me as I progress through my academic career.
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Prompt: What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements.

 Prompt Response: My group did not face too many problems when selecting and analyzing sources. My group did not disagree on our sources and chose the ones we thought worked best for our given topic. Summary: Compiled sources from my group. Reflection: I learned that conversing and working through disagreements is an effective way to work when in a group setting. Knowing this will help me as I progress through my academic career.
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Prompt: Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research.

Prompt Response: The most compelling issue connected to my research topic is it's effect on mental health. This is the most compelling one to me because of the information I found showing both positive and negative effects on a person. I've also found that people who have generally poor mental health seek plastic surgery because of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, which warps a person's view of their body. Summary: Began compiling sources for research project. Reflection: I learned that having multiple people work on the same sources provides a greater pool or sources. Knowing this will help me as I progress through my academic career.
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Prompt: How has completing the annotated bibliography changed or clarified your understanding of your research topic? Discuss how your sources connect to one another and how they are shaping your argument moving forward.

 Prompt Response: Completing my annotated bibliography has clarified my understanding of my topic as it made me realize all of the external factors that come into play when speaking about my topic. My sources are helping build my argument as it provides me with crucial information on my topic. Summary: Worked on Annotated Bibliography Reflection: I learned that sources can be both for or against an argument. Knowing this will help me as I progress through my academic career.
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Prompt: Which part of the annotated bibliography (summary, reflection, or evaluation) was the most challenging for you, and why? Explain how that challenge helped you grow as a researcher and how it will help you when writing your research paper.

 Prompt Response: The most challenging part of the annotated bibliography for me was the summary. This was the hardest for me because of how difficult it was to condense the articles into their most important points. This challenge will help me grow as a researcher by pushing me to truly understand the most important part of my sources. Summary: Began working on Annotated Bibliography. Reflection: I learned that writing an annotated bibliography makes it easier to organize your sources. Knowing this will help me as I progress through my academic career.
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Prompt: As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue.

 Prompt Response: Between my sources I noticed that some sources focused on the effects of plastic surgery while others focused on the mental state of patients who undergo plastic surgery. This difference help me realized that my issue was not as simple as I first thought it would be. Summary: Collected sources for research project. Reflection: I learned that credible sources mostly come from news websites. Knowing this will make it easier to find and use credible sources.
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Prompt: Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found.

 Prompt Response: My experience with GALILEO was different from how I searched for information in the past as it gave me more reliable sources to use. Using specific search strategies helped me find specific information that could be used for my research rather than irrelevant information that would be of no use to me. Summary: Began finding sources to use for research project. Reflection: I learned that specific searches help when conducting research. Knowing this will help me as I advance throughout my academic career.
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