Research and Planning

A reliable source is

• Biased

• Trying to sell you something

• Trusted

• Google

An example of a reliable source is …

• A print or an online encyclopedia

• Google.com

• Wikipedia.com

• Yahoo.com

Steps you can take to determine if a source is reliable will include

• Looking for the author

• Verifying the author’s expertise

• Determining the authors of the website

• All of the above

What is a search engine?

• A paid library website that gives reliable information

• Searches the Internet and identifies items that match the characters and keywords entered by a user

• A library online catalogue

• A collection of full text articles used for research projects

How many types of research are there?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Which one of these points do you include in an introduction?

• Final results

• Evidence

• Introduce topic areas in one or two sentences

What does a conclusion include?

• Summarising your major points

• Describing the topic

• The positive and the negative points

What does WEED mean?

• Weeds, ecology, environment, danger

• What, example, evidence, do

• Willow, elder, elm, dogwood

• When, example, essay, develop

The introduction should be ??? of the overall word count

• 20%

• 80%

• 10%

• 25%

What is Research?

• A creation of new/existing knowledge which generates new concepts and understandings

• A collection of facts and/or information with no purpose

• The reordering of facts without interpretation