EUREKA: Six Easy Steps to Research Success.

This article suggests six steps to attain success in research works. To help students chart a clear course through their research papers, and encourage them to cultivate deeply-rooted research skills that they can apply to all their future information gathering challenges, school media specialists at William Floyd High School have designed a six-letter mnemonic, EUREKA, which leads the student through a sequenced six step research process. The steps include establish the research topic, understand the variety of possible resources, retrieve the best resources for the job, examine and extract the relevant information from those resources, knit the resulting information into a fluid whole and assess the product. EUREKA is similar to the Big6 research skills by Michael Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz in that both methods simplify the complex process of critical information gathering into six user-friendly steps. EUREKA is an effective collaborative tool for library media specialists and teachers because it is flexibly open-ended.