reflections on researching

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To do research, To do research, you can’t just go you can’t just go to Google, type to Google, type your topic, and your topic, and click on the first click on the first topic to pop up. topic to pop up. Thomas Bond

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Page 1: Reflections on researching

To do research, you To do research, you can’t just go to can’t just go to Google, type your Google, type your topic, and click on topic, and click on the first topic to pop the first topic to pop up.up.

Thomas Bond

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When researching, When researching, it’s important to read it’s important to read for relevancyfor relevancy..

Vicky V.

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When researching, When researching, it’s important to it’s important to realize when realize when information has information has another person’s another person’s emotional feelings emotional feelings added to it.added to it.

Noon T.

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With Noodletools.com, With Noodletools.com, we don’t have to make we don’t have to make the works cited by the works cited by hand. Fortunately, it hand. Fortunately, it creates the list creates the list automatically.automatically.

Anthony A.Tetsushiro K.

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I discovered how I discovered how difficult it truly is to difficult it truly is to find dependable find dependable information.information.

Stephanie E.

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What I would do What I would do differently next time differently next time is to always copy is to always copy down the information down the information for a works cited for a works cited right away when I right away when I find the source.find the source.

Khamrone K.

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I learned two new I learned two new research tools. They research tools. They are NewsBank and are NewsBank and EBSCO. NewsBank is EBSCO. NewsBank is my favourite because my favourite because the school library the school library collection is very collection is very easy to use.easy to use.

Nanoko U.

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The first thing I The first thing I learned about learned about researching, and researching, and what I think is most what I think is most important, is to look important, is to look for very broad key for very broad key words.words.

James A..

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ISB’s search engines, ISB’s search engines, made it rather easy made it rather easy because there were because there were many sources which I many sources which I was able to use was able to use (EBSCO, NewsBank).(EBSCO, NewsBank).

Tetsushiro K.

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You need to You need to summarize key ideas summarize key ideas in your own words.in your own words.

Stella D.

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You must be able to You must be able to clearly identify the clearly identify the topic of each article topic of each article and then see if it and then see if it connects to your connects to your research topic.research topic.

Michael H.

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The most important The most important thing about research thing about research is having is having enthusiasm.enthusiasm.

Philip C.

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If we knew what it is If we knew what it is we were doing, it we were doing, it would not be called would not be called research, would it?research, would it?

Albert Einstein