The Individual Research Report is the first official assignment in the College Board's AP Seminar course, where students have to independently investigate a specific aspect of a broader topic or issue, synthesize information from multiple sources, and present their findings in a well-organized written report.
Fortunately, the high school that I attend provides a plethora of databases for its students, and I used that access to my advantage, where I used sources from databases like GALE and EBSCO to find evidence pertaining to my topic: Innovations in Green Architecture.
The following AP Seminar assignment had me in a team, where together, my team members had to create a presentation and a speech that discussed the topics and problems that we explained in each of our essays (IMPs). So, as I progressed through my research process for the IMP, I also had to collaborate with my teammates, where I had to effectively communicate with my team to ensure that our essays were on the same topic, albeit from different lenses.
There were a lot of research papers about my topic, but not all of them were related to my specific lens that I was focusing on (cultural/social). In fact, I would say more than about 75% of the papers I found that had to do with innovations in green architecture didn't have any viable or useable evidencethat I could use in my paper.