id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16554 Rinto, Erin; Bowles-Terry, Melissa; Santos, Ariel J. Assessing the Scope and Feasibility of First-Year Students’ Research Paper Topics 2017-04-19 16 .pdf application/pdf 8763 324 43 Though the challenges students face when selecting an interesting and manageable research topic are well known to librarians and instructors, little information literacy research has been conducted that systematically analyzes student research topics. Both of the tools used in this study (an evaluative rubric and qualitative analysis software) enable us to analyze the text of student research topics to establish meaning: in the case of the rubric, we can determine student research skill development; and, in the case of the qualitative software ATLAS.ti, we can discover thematic categories and subjects that students choose to write about. cache/crl-16554.pdf txt/crl-16554.txt