Discussion 5-1

HIS 100 Research Plan Preparation Worksheet

Prompt: Applying what you have learned about narrowing research questions, revise your research questions from your Topic Exploration Worksheet. In the tables below, replace the bracketed text with the original question, the revised version of that question, and one to two sentences explaining how you approached your revisions for that question to give your instructor insight into your revision process. Then, answer the questions about your primary sources below the tables by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information.

Research Question 1

Original Question	Revised Question
[Does the constitution still matter?]	[What are the benefits of the drafting process of the United States Constitution in the present day?]
[Insert one to two sentences explaining how you approached your revisions for the question above.] After a series of research on how to refine a research question, I found that my question was not specific and did not contain some keywords regarding the research topic. Hence, I revised the question by making it more simple and critical, including some aspects of the topic, such as drafting, the U.S. Constitution, present-day relevance.

Research Question 2

Original Question	Revised Question
[While drafting the constitution, did they consider public perspectives?]	[Was there any public involvement in the drafting of the United States Constitution and what are the benefits of public participation?]
[Insert one to two sentences explaining how you approached your revisions for the question above.] Again, I approached the revision of the question by making it more of a discussion question rather than a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question and which can be answered with facts. Terms including participation, United States, drafting, needed to be included for the question to be more specific.

· Applying what you have learned about comparing primary sources and analyzing secondary sources, revisit the primary sources you listed in Part 3 of your Topic Exploration Worksheet, list them below, and describe what each of these sources adds to your understanding of your selected topic.

· Name of primary source: [“The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.”]

Author: [Governeur Morris]

Hyperlink: [ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/preamble/ ]

What this source adds to your understanding of your selected topic: [The primary source aids to comprehend the intention of the constitution. For instance, it reveals the aim of the framers and the purpose of the document.]

· Name of primary source: [“The Federalist Papers”]

Author: [Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison]

Hyperlink: [ https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text ]

What this source adds to your understanding of your selected topic: [The primary sources add to my understanding of the main three concepts, including separation of the national administration power into three branches, The Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary. It also aids understand the reason it was written, which is to urge New Yorkers to approve the projected U.S. Constitution that was drafted in 1787.]