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Contreras: Welcome to Research

What is Research?

When we do research on a topic we are asking these three questions:

  1. What do I want to know?
  2. What did I find out?
  3. Where did I find it?

Information Search Process

 

Assignment Description

Research Organizer

Use this Research Paper Organizer to keep track of your sources and what information you will be using from those various sources. Download the document and save it to the desktop. Then, upload the doc to your Onedrive account so that you can access it from anywhere.

Go to Onedrive.jsmorton.org

Sign in using your skyward username @jsmorton.org

Ex. rodrijua000@jsmorton.org

Don't forget the @jsmorton.org!

Your password is your Skyward password (the same password you use to sign in to the computers in the Library)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia can be a great place to start your research because it will give you the WHO, WHERE, WHAT, and WHY of a topic, but make sure you verify your facts in another source.

News Sources