This guide is to provide you with the resources you need for your research related to conducting research and creating an academic poster.
One of the fundamental aspects of scholarly work is that it builds on the work of others. As we develop research questions and build our hypotheses about the world, we need to consider our own observations and data, as well as the observations and data of others. As a result, a huge piece of being a successful scientist is reading scholarly literature within the discipline you are working.
As you work on your honors project, it is important to do a literature search to help you develop your research question. You can use the existing literature to help you decide on a disease, set of genes or specific pathway to work on that will be interesting to you and relevant to the disciplinary community. As you continue with your project and collect data, you will want to turn to the literature again to help you make sense of your data and put what you learned into context.
This guide is a near duplicate of our Biology 11A Research Project guide created by Librarian, Brooke Ramos, with permission. The content has been slightly modified to help students who are looking to participate in the Honors Symposium.
*This guide was originally created by Alicia Diaz Wrest and updated by Megan Barbeau.
