FOCUS

A. Describe your topic.

B. List five questions you would like to answer about your topic.

C. What is the purpose of your presentation?

Inform Entertain Both

D. Who is your audience?

E. How are you going to communicate what you have learned?

Report	Essay	Poster	Speech
Chart	Model	Video	Story
Poem	Skit/Play	PowerPoint	Web Page

F. List a variety of words and phrases (broad and narrow) that you could use to find information (e.g.: Pyramids, Egypt, Ancient Egypt, Architecture)

G. Arrange your words and phrases into search statements using Boolean logic – “AND”, “OR” and “NOT”.

To broaden your search use the word “OR” to join your search terms
To narrow your search use “AND” and/or “NOT”.

Examples:

Search is	Boolean operators:
broadened:	pyramids OR Egypt
narrowed:	pyramids AND construction
	pyramids NOT schemes

 

 

FIND

Use each of the following different types of sources:

• General encyclopedias
• Specialized references (e.g. atlases, almanacs, specialized encyclopedias)
• Non-Fiction books. Use Esquimalt’s On-Line Catalogue.
• Newspaper, magazine and journal articles (Check the icons on the left of Esquimalt High School's Virtual Library )
• Internet (use only pages from credible, authoritative sources)

See Research Guide part 2 for more information.