 1. Support your arguments.  2. Provide background.  3. See what other’s have done. 

 Keywords in your topic  What is your topic trying to prove or illustrate?  Current issues or stories related to your topic.  Local articles that can tie in with national research or global issues.

 5 sources minimum. 2 of which can be “open” web sources. The other three items need to be either books, articles or reference works.  Open web sources are sites found by using a search engine, such as “Google.”  Offline or digitized information is considered equivalent to their printed format (Ebsco, Britannica, Oxford).

 Connect keywords found in your bibliographic worksheet  Create an outline of what you want each paragraph to describe.  Think about what “concepts” your experiment or project illustrates.

 Use keywords in a phrase to access relevant articles. For example. “global warming” “global warming and ocean” “global warming and ocean and effects” Later, limit by date, full text or specific journal.

 A form of citing sources of information used in academic work.  For example  Book:  [Author last name], [First initial]. [Middle initial]. ([Publication year]). [Title of work]. [Location]: [Publisher]. ◦ Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan New York, Bantam, (c1911).

 Article:  [Author last name], [First initial]. [Middle initial]. ([Publication year]). [Title of article]. [Title of journal], [Volume number]([Issue number]), [Page number starts]-[ends]. [Document Object Identifier] ◦ Brown, Jackie. Picture Perfect. Dog World. Dec2011, Vol. 96 Issue 12, p4-4, 2/3. e&db=ulh&AN= &site=src-live