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Research Tips
| These research tips are provided as a suggested guideline to facilitate the research process for an efficient and successful learning experience. |
Refer To:
Your Teacher's Guidelines
Big 6 Information Problem Solving Process
bookmarks and posters
Heirarchy of Resources |
Follow the Research Process - ex. Big6TM
Evaluate (step 6) and revisit other parts of the process over and over.
Evaluate your sources,
your process,
your product. |
Caution! Floppy Disks Go Bad!!!
The use of floppy disks is discouraged.
Flash Drives (aka. thumb drives, key drives) can be purchased at HEB, Walmart, Office Depot, Best Buy, just to name a few. Even the cheapest will hold the data of many floppy disks and are not as vulnerable to damage.
Always have a copy of your most current saved original in your network folder at school or on your home computer.
Caution! Magnets damage or erase computer disks. Do NOT carry your disks in bags or pockets with magnetic holders, cell phones, radios or any other devices that may contain magnets
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Cite your sources as you find information.
The Navarro English Department requires MLA documentation for your citations.
Links to citation tools and guides are provided on the Home Page of our district libraries website.
Create a wordprocessing document and save as "citations." Copy/Paste your citations into the document.
Number or code your citations. Mark the code next to the info from the corresponding source in your notes to refer to later. |
| Save in Rich Text Format (RTF) if you have Microsoft Works or another word processing program at home. This will maintain your formatting, but allow your document to be opened by MS Word at school for printing. |
Set our NISD Libraries page as the Home Page in your browser while doing research. You can always change it later. |
Hierarchy of Resources
This guideline is provided as a strategic tool to help students maximize accuracy and efficiency when performing information searches.
1. Encyclopedias – Brainstorming, Keywords & Cross References for chosen topic
2. Library Resources:
Destiny - OPAC (Catalog)
Reference Books
Biographies
Non-Fiction Books
Periodicals
3. AV Software – Library use only
4. Teacher selected references and/or websites
5. Databases:
TexShare
Ebsco – Magazines & Journals
Points of View
Extended Collection
Britannica Online
Rand McNally Classroom (Maps)
CareerCruising
6. Websites cataloged in Destiny - OPAC (catalog)
"Last Stop" Resources...
7. Vivisimo - Uses the Google search engine and others, then "clusters" or categorizes the results. (Less time surfing.)
Google – more authoritative searches than other search engines
– searches .gov., org, .edu sites first
Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) has a kids search engine Ask for Kids.com
For more Children's search tools see Major Children's Guides and Directories
Other educator suggested web directories or search engines.
See the Navarro Libraries Home Page for more suggestions.
Other Sources to Consider:
Community Resources
Government Agencies, Museums, etc.
Interviews of local or professional authorities (people) on a subject / in a field
Public Library & TexShare Databases
College/University Libraries |
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