ReligionEdu, [Jan. 19, 2014, 9:47 a.m.]
Make Connections and Point to What's Important.
Part I
Find one journal article, report, or scholarly study about your inquiry. Add this item to the Youth Voices Crocodoc Folder, then read and annotate it. Post a response on Youth Voices using one of these two guides: General Response to a Non-Fiction Article or Response to a Wikipedia article.
Create a first draft in Google Docs. Get a response from a couple of peers and a teacher, then spellcheck and proofread one more time. Finally post your response as a Discussion on Youth Voices.
For the first part of this task, choose one of the following places to begin your research:
For good reasons,
a lot of people
question the credibility
(Can't anybody write
something there?) and
the reliability (How
do we know anything
there is
true or balanced?) of
Wikipedia. Yet it is
sometimes a good place
to start a research
project, to find out what
people are saying about
a particular topic, and to
find other sources.
Further, if we support or
question any claim from
a Wikipedia article with
other sources, we are
learning good lessons in
checking our facts from
any one source
against other sources.
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A good way to start a
research project is in
the here and now. Find
a news article that
appeared within the
past 30 days. If you use
Google News, you'll be
looking in about 4,500
news sites. Sure, news
comes and goes, but a
newspaper is a good
place to start your
research, to see how
your question or topic
is showing up in the
news these days. You'll
also find leads to other
more in-depth,
well-developed sources
that you can use to
continue your research.
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