RILINK Schools: Winman Library: Ancient Egypt

Tips and Tricks for Research

Research Tips and Tricks:

1. Make sure that your sources are RELIABLE. Here's a poster to help you remember questions to ask yourself when considering a website for a resource:: Poster: 5Ws of Website Evaluation

2. Avoid plagiarism. Here's a quick video to remind you how to avoid stealing other people's work.

This Video: Citing Sources, Why and How to do it is also helpful.

3. Set up a graphic organizer or note-taking system:

There are many ways to take notes, but you should include the following key points on sources that you use:

Citation, including author, title, publisher, date of publication, date of access
Notes (key words and phrases; avoid using whole sentences unless you plan to use an in-text citation)
Click here to see an example of a note taking template

4. Keep track of resources as you use them!!