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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:  We used the strategy of splitting up our workload equally between each member in order to ensure we work together effectively as well as finishing all of our work in time. Summary: We wrote two group paragraphs about our topic question Reflection:  I learned more about how to write about my topic
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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:  Some challenges we faced were finding sources that were diverse while also staying on topic of our prompt question. we overcame this challenge by us making sure that we really considered everyones sources and picking the ones we found worked best for us Summary:  we finished working on picking out the best of each source type from all of the group members sources Reflection: I learned more about how to find the most efficient quotes from a source related to a prompt question
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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 it is in my opinion is how with a decline in birth rates countries economies will suffer as labor workers become less and less. I find it most interesting because it shows how many countries care about the lack of workers that come from low birth rates Summary: we began working on picking out the best of each source type from all of the group members sources Reflection:  I learned more about other peoples sources
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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:  It has helped me better understand the multiple stances that are taken by separate authors on the topic of birth rate declines. They are all about birth ratea and gaining new information is going to be useful for my essay Summary: We wrote more of our annotated bibliographies  Reflection:  I learned more about how to write annotated bibliographies 
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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 summary was the most difficult part as many of my articles either had to many obvious points to make or it was very hard to find one solid point like with the graph and cartoon. This challenge has helped me to better pick out singular topics from a source and summarize them properly Summary: We worked on creating our annotated bibliography  Reflection:  I learned more about how to effectively make a organized annotated bibliography 
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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:  The contrasts and differing opinions on my topic helped me understand how I can approach the different subject matter of my topic and to use the ones that i dont find as obviously useful Summary: We gathered sources for our topics and put them into a file Reflection:  I learned more about how to properly sort and find sources for my topic
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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:  Being very specific about what I was looking for was incredible for finding my sources but for certain topics or types of sources i needed to use less filters ans spend more time finding my documents just scrolling through documents Summary: We used Galileo to find sources for our topic Reflection:  I learned more about how to use Galileo as a search engine
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