Chapter two of The Bedford Researcher builds and continues from Getting Started; progressing to Exploring and Focusing. The chapter beings by giving various guidelines, rules, and methods to exploring selected topics; eventually coming to an issue within it. Inside the research log, a plan of exploring the topic is recommended, and several steps are embellished in the following pages. "Step 1: Create a Plan to Explore Your Topic" creates a base to follow through for the next steps, "Step 2: Discuss Your Topic with Others" can help provide insight and different perspectives on your topic, "Step 3: Conduct Preliminary Observations" takes movement to the topic-- considering visiting your topic physically if possible, "Step 4: Find and Review Sources" wraps up all the data you've collected and makes use of it.
The chapter then continues to describe ways of gathering sources for the topic you've chosen / been handed, like searching through a library's online catalog or looking through the shelves of said library. Unsurprisingly, the library is a great source of knowledge and variety in information, with sources like articles in scholarly journals, in trade or other professional journals, in magazines and newspapers, books, theses and dissertation papers, microfilm and microfiche, and many other sources as well. The chapter then elaborates on these sources, what to trust and how to find it, and the vastness of the web. Also, it recommends skimming sources to gain a faster idea on what they're about.
This chapter will help in the following days as I being to find and use sources to narrow my topic's question down.
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