Discusses the importance of taking notes at school, describes different methods of effective note-taking, and includes exercises, illustrations, and checklists.
Describes strategies students can use to organize, prepare, and present research projects after they have finished gathering information, and includes exercises, illustrations, and checklists.
Looks at primary and secondary sources as research tools, explaining what they are, and offering tips on how to really understand photographs, artifacts and objects, and documents. Includes exercises, illustrations, and checklists.
Provides guidelines on how to gather information during an interview, discusses what questions to ask, how to prepare for an interview and how to put it all together.
A discussion of Web site evaluation, explaining how students can determine whether the information they are finding on a Web site is accurate and if it is going to be right for their research needs. Includes exercises, checklists, and illustrations.
Describes strategies for searching the World Wide Web, explaining how to narrow a search, discussing the use of keywords, subscription databases, and subject directories, and including exercises, checklists, and illustrations.
