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Research Guidelines, Tips, & Recommended Websites

Research Guidelines:
·        Always cite your sources (give titles, authors, and publication information such as date, website, publisher/city for EACH thing you read)
·        Paraphrase information
·        If you want to borrow an important idea from an author in his or her exact words, make sure you copy no more than 1 or 2 sentences and make sure you use “quotation marks” around the copied text & provide a full citation

Research Tips:
·        Use a variety of resources (different websites, books, interviews, photographs, TV shows or videos…)
·        Use quality resources (look for good information – from universities, think tanks, major organizations, newspapers – and for facts, not opinions)
·        Investigate – dig deep and work hard

Recommended Websites for Social Issue Research:
·        Global Issues: Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All - http://www.globalissues.org/
·        Library Guides to social issues research: http://library.raritanval.edu/resources/researchguide.cfm?rgID=32
·        http://libguides.byuh.edu/content.php?pid=95033&sid=710793
·        http://www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=37868+4293014369&Ne=459+20089&searchPageType=vrl
·        http://www.ithacalibrary.com/sp/subjects/guide.php?subject=SIWR
·        Librarians’ Internet Index “Information You Can Trust:” http://www.ipl.org/
·        United Nations Research Institute for Social Development: http://www.unrisd.org/

Other Recommended Websites (especially about social activists):





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