Research Tools Brenda Carlson Media Specialist Adams High School

Research Ideas /termindex.htm /termindex.htm justice.htm justice.htm 0 justice-topics -Need membership to get links but helpful site for topic ideas justice-topics

.gov Government agency: –very similar to.com sites, there are no restrictions to register as.net and content is not monitored..com Commercial site.edu Higher education - Other educational sites may appear with different domain names: Military site- ~ ("tilde") Personal site – blogs, wikis, and personal webpages Organization; may be charitable, religious, or a lobbying group -

Purpose 0 commercial 0 informative 0 educational 0 entertaining 0 persuasive 0 personal 0 institutional 0 a hoax

Authority 0 Who is the author? 0 What are his credentials? 0 Does he have sufficient authority to speak on the subject? 0 Is there any way to reach him? 0 Is there an organizational or corporate sponsor? 0 Is this page authentic, or is it a hoax? 0 Is there a reference list?

Objectivity 0 Does the content reflect a bias? 0 Is the bias explicit or hidden? 0 Does the identity of the author or sponsor suggest a bias? 0 How does the bias impact the usefulness of the information?

Currency 0 Is the information on the page up-to-date? 0 Can you tell when the page was last updated? 0 Are there dead links? 0 Is there a difference between the date the information was created and the date the page was last updated?

Clarity 0 Is the information clearly presented? 0 Is the text neat, legible and formatted for easy reading? 0 If there are graphics, do they add to the content or distract? 0 If there are advertisements, do they interfere with your ability to use the page? 0 Are the pages well organized? 0 Are there mistakes in spelling or word usage?

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For your projects Library of Congress 0 PBS - The American Novel Michigan Elibrary do a general database search for author’s namewww.mel.org 0 Adams High School Online book collection 0 PASSWORD: kepdorp =GVRL

Resources Library of Congress Elibrary Opposing Viewpoints Medline Plus New York Times Adams High School Online book collection PASSWORD: kepdorp VRL

Search Engines- alternatives to Google 0 Searching have google do the work for you offers additional search terms search engine for students, displays full sentences displays screen shots of the websites

Sources for Bibliographic Help 0 on/mla/ on/mla/ 0 Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (Purdue University Online Writing Lab): Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format 0 Citation Builder-