CONDUCTING
RESEARCH
There
will be times in this course when you must conduct research to complete an
assignment. In addition to properly
acknowledging sources, it is important that you select quality sources and
consider the reliability of the sources you use. While Wikipedia may be convenient, it is
not an appropriate academic source.
For that matter, in a senior university level course, any encyclopedia is
really not an appropriate source.
Instead you should be accessing academic journals found in the online
databases, primary documents found either in university/municipal/company
archives or in online collections, or historical monographs (a.k.a. books
written by historians!) Think in
terms of OVPL whenever you consider using a source. Is it reliable, authoritative, and
relevant enough to base YOUR argument on it?
Click on
the link below to go to a tutorial on assessing sources.
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
So how do
you find more relevant material?
Here is a great tutorial on using search engines to find online
material:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/websearching/
If you
are having problems getting started with research, this final presentation from
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/research/
Here are
some of the research resources available to you through our own
library:
CHCI’s Online
Catalogue http://ipac1.wrdsb.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1032888550937.855&profile=chc&logout=true&startover=true#focus
WRDSB Virtual Library
Portal (Databases) http://virtuallibrary.wrdsb.on.ca/
Secondary One-Stop Portal
(Databases for high school research) http://virtuallibrary.wrdsb.on.ca/secondary_onestop.html
History Sourcebooks( A Collection of subject organized primary
documents courtesy of
Avalon Project (
CHCI History Resource
Links http://chci.wrdsb.on.ca/library/reshist.htm
HAPPY
RESEARCHING!!