Efficient Researching

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Efficient Researching

• And Citing Your Sources

MOORE
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How to research efficiently

• Plan It
• Find It
• Read It
• Note It
• Cite It
• Analyze It
• Apply It

People Forgetting Research Notes Cant Achieve
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PLANNING

• What question (from the report sheet) are you
  going to look for?
• Where is the best reference source to find the
  needed information?

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Research Notes Form Youll need TEN!

• Question Write the question from the assignment
  sheet.
• Where to Look
• Online Need to have an online source picked
  out
• Search Engine Like Google or Yahoo!
• Key Words What you type for the
  search
• Non-Online Need to have a non-internet plan too
• Notes You can write out notes from your
  research, or you can copy and staple to the back
  of this form.
• Sources Anytime you write down notes from any
  source IMMEDIATELY write the source information
  down. I recommend you can fill out the citation
  forms and staple them to the back.
  http//www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/sbhslib/research/citati
  onforms.htm

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PLANING EXAMPLE

• Question
• (F-1) Flag of the United States The meaning of
  all its symbols and colors.
• Where to Look
• Internet (Engine Google Keywords US FLAG)
• Books on flags
• Notes
• British flags provided basic design and colors
  (Talocci 177)
• Stars represent states, stripes represent
  original colonies (UPFW 13)
• Napoleon designed the Italian flag after the
  French flag. (UPFW 141)
• Sources
• Talocci, Mauro. Guide to the Flags of the
  World. New York Quill, 1977
• Ultimate Pocket Flags of the World. London
  Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1997

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Citing Your Sources.You must cite your sources

• Anytime you quote a sources directly
• Anytime you paraphrase a source
• Anytime you use information that you did not
  previously know.

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IF YOU DONT CITE YOUR SOURCES...
YOU WILL FAIL!!!
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How to cite sources?

• Parenthetically

• End Notes

• Foot Notes

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Parenthetical Notations(The most common)

• Question
• (F-1) Flag of the United States The meaning of
  all its symbols and colors.
• Where to Look
• Books on flags
• Notes
• British flags provided basic design and colors
  (Talocci 177)
• Stars represent states, stripes represent
  original colonies (UPFW 13)
• Napoleon designed the Italian flag after the
  French flag. (UPFW 141)
• Sources
• Talocci, Mauro. Guide to the Flags of the World.
  New York Quill,
  1977
• Ultimate Pocket Flags of the World. London
• Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1997

1- Look at your notes
2- Apply it to your report
The thirteen stripes on the American flag are
representative of the original thirteen colonies.
(UPFW 13) Whereas the three on the Italian flag
3- Cite your source by placing the authors name
or title of the source, plus page number(s) in
parenthesis after where the information is used.
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End Notes(Dont confuse these with the
bibliography)

• Question
• (F-1) Flag of the United States The meaning of
  all its symbols and colors.
• Where to Look
• Books on flags
• Notes
• British flags provided basic design and colors
  (Talocci 177)
• Stars represent states, stripes represent
  original colonies (UPFW 13)
• Napoleon designed the Italian flag after the
  French flag. (UPFW 141)
• Sources
• Talocci, Mauro. Guide to the Flags of the World.
  New York Quill,
  1977
• Ultimate Pocket Flags of the World. London
• Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1997

1- Look at your notes
2- Apply it to your report
The American flag was basically modeled after the
British flag.1 Whereas the Italian flag.
3- Cite your source by placing a superscript
number that matches up with the citation at the
end of the report.
End Notes 1. Talocci, Mauro. Guide to the Flags
of the World. New York Quill, 1977 p. 177 2.
Ibid. p. 178 3. Ultimate Pocket Flags of the
World. London Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1997.
p. 141
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REMINDER END NOTES PAGE IS NOT THE BIBLIOGRAPY
PAGE!!!
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Foot Notes(Many word processors will help you
with these)

• Question
• (F-1) Flag of the United States The meaning of
  all its symbols and colors.
• Where to Look
• Books on flags
• Notes
• British flags provided basic design and colors
  (Talocci 177)
• Stars represent states, stripes represent
  original colonies (UPFW 13)
• Napoleon designed the Italian flag after the
  French flag. (UPFW 141)
• Sources
• Talocci, Mauro. Guide to the Flags of the World.
  New York Quill,
  1977
• Ultimate Pocket Flags of the World. London
• Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1997

1- Look at your notes
2- Apply it to your report
The American flag was basically modeled after the
British flag.1 Whereas the Italian flag was
designed after the French flag.2
3- Cite your source by placing a superscript
number that matches up with the citation at the
bottom of the page.
The American flag was modeled after the British
flag.1 Whereas the Italian flag was designed
after the French flag.2 __________________________
_______ 1. Talocci, p. 177 2. UPFW 141
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