Composition 1 & 2
Guide to Good Research
1. First Steps - Narrow your Topic! This will help. Make a copy for yourself to work through your individual topics.
2. Once you have some research questions, and a collection of search terms (keywords) - pop over to NoodleTools and set up your project. Here is a quick how-to.
3. Once you have NoodleTools set up, head to Ebsco Explora - check out this video to see the basics of searching, saving articles, and importing citations into NoodleTools.
4. Here are some additional resources that will be helpful for you - the icons above are links, too!
CQ Researcher (from home click here)
CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics include social and teen issues, environment, health, education and science and technology. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts. Includes, charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.
SIRS Knowledge Source:
a broad collection of current/contemporary pro/con trending issues.
Opposing Viewpoints
An excellent resource for researching social, political and controversial issues providing: • Media-rich topic pages • Pro/con viewpoint essays • Topic overviews • More than 300 primary source documents • Biographies of social activists and reformers • Court-case overviews • Periodical articles • Statistical tables, charts and graphs • Images and a link to Google Image Search • Podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
Gale Global Issues in Context
Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Access to dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, specialized encyclopedias and more.
Biography in Context
Provides brief and overview biographies on a wide range of well-known and influential people and groups. From historical to contemporary individuals.
Gale eBooks
Access ebooks 24-7 through the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Find the full-text of thousands of reference works on a variety of subjects.
CQ Researcher (from home click here)
CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics include social and teen issues, environment, health, education and science and technology. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts. Includes, charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.
SIRS Knowledge Source:
a broad collection of current/contemporary pro/con trending issues.
Opposing Viewpoints
An excellent resource for researching social, political and controversial issues providing: • Media-rich topic pages • Pro/con viewpoint essays • Topic overviews • More than 300 primary source documents • Biographies of social activists and reformers • Court-case overviews • Periodical articles • Statistical tables, charts and graphs • Images and a link to Google Image Search • Podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
Gale Global Issues in Context
Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Access to dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, specialized encyclopedias and more.
Biography in Context
Provides brief and overview biographies on a wide range of well-known and influential people and groups. From historical to contemporary individuals.
Gale eBooks
Access ebooks 24-7 through the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Find the full-text of thousands of reference works on a variety of subjects.