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Research Basics

Research Basics. Choosing a Topic. Pick something that interests you! Y ou’ll enjoy learning more about it It will help make the topic interesting for your audience Pick something specific You want to be able to be an expert on your topic Example: “Hammerhead Sharks” instead of “Sharks”

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Research Basics

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  1. Research Basics

  2. Choosing a Topic • Pick something that interests you! • You’ll enjoy learning more about it • It will help make the topic interesting for your audience • Pick something specific • You want to be able to be an expert on your topic • Example: “Hammerhead Sharks” instead of “Sharks” • even more specific “How Hammerhead Sharks Hunt” instead of “Hammerhead Sharks”

  3. Research Materials • Research materials are materials that provide information about your topic. • Books, websites, encyclopedias, dictionaries, films, databases, journals, magazines, etc. • It is important to make sure your sources are reliable • A reliable source is something that is published or produced officially • It has been reviewed and approved by experts

  4. Internet Resources • Websites, online encyclopedias, online dictionaries, online thesaurus, online journals, professional blogs, online magazines, online newspapers, databases • Establishing reliability • Who wrote the material? • What is the subject? • When was it written? • Why was it written? ** .edu, .org, .gov

  5. Reliable or Unreliable? • www.facebook.com • www.dictionary.com • www.chicagotribune.com • www.pbs.org • www.nutrition.gov • www.perezhilton.com

  6. Print Resources • Books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus’, magazines, academic journals, academic journals found online, newspapers • Establishing Reliability • Who wrote the material? • When was it written? • Why was it written?

  7. Reliable or Unreliable? • My Life, Bill Clinton • Webster’s Dictionary • A Shore Thing, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi • Biology, published by Prentice Hall • The New York Times • Night,Elie Wiesel • Hemingway: The Paris Years, Michael Reynolds • The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

  8. Print Resources continued • Table of Contents • Helps you determine if the source is applicable to your topic • Index • Helps you find information quickly • Headings, Section Titles • Give clues about where information is located in text

  9. Organizing Research • Tools to help you organize the information you find about your topic: • Outlines, graphic organizers, charts, webs, notes

  10. MLA Citations • Important to cite any sources to avoid plagiarism • Plagiarism: using somebody else’s work as your own • Works Cited: collection of resource sources • MLA: Modern Language Association • Important to follow the punctuation and format closely

  11. MLA Citation Practice • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone • J.K. Rowling, author • Mary GrandPre, illustrator • Scholastic, publisher • New York

  12. MLA Citation Practice • Center for Disease Control and Prevention • “Nutrition, Physical Activity, & Obesity: School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity”– article title • No author • October 15, 2011, publication date • November 8, 2011, access date

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