Transcript Internet Research

How to Conduct
Internet Research
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Research Topics
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The life of Charles Dickens
Life in the Victorian Age
British Prisons in the 1800’s
Child labor during the Victorian Age
Christmas Traditions during the Victorian
Age
• Dickens’ impact on Christmas
• London in the 1800’s
• Dickens’ literary works
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Search Engines
Search Engines look through their
databases for “key words”
Every word you enter is a “key word”
If you find too many results – add
more specific key words
If you find too few results – take out
key words and make your topic more
broad
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Choosing a Good Website
Read the “blurbs” listed with the
websites in order to help find the
“best” sites
Look on the site to see WHO made
the site – are they qualified?
Look on the site to see WHEN a site
was made – is it recent?
Look on the site to see HOW MUCH
information it gives – is it enough?
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Watch out for
Misinformation!
Remember to question what you read
– not all sites on the internet are good
or true
Remember that .gov and .org sites
are generally better than .com sites
Example
http://whitehouse.georgewbush.org/ki
ds/eagle.asp
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What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s
words as your own.
You CANNOT copy and paste from the
internet – all information must be put in
your own words onto your paper, or if you
quote it be sure to be it in quotation marks.
Example:
George Washington
Using this resource, what SHOULD you write
down?
Don’t write sentences, just take notes
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Record Your Sources
People want to know where you found
your information.
Write down each website’s address
you visit and the date you visit it.
www.biographies4kids.com Dec 3, 2011
You will need this information in order
to create a bibliography or list of the
sources you use.
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