Ten Steps to Better Online Research

  Step 1: The Internet Is Not Always the Best Place to Start Should you start this research project by using the Internet? Many schools offer access...

Research Includes Learning Directly From Experts; 7 Easy Ways to Do So

This post is an exceprt from the Choose2Matter Course, a self-paced, online course. It helps educators change the way they view their students, and themselves, and their...

Stop Teaching that “.Govs” Can Be Trusted & “.Coms” Cannot

Sometime in the mid-1990s, someone created a tutorial that said that an important aspect of evaluating a Web site is its top-level domain, such as...

The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia

Wikipedia provides Internet users with millions of articles on a broad range of topics, and commonly ranks first in search engines. But its reliability...

How to Synthesize Your Research Into a Cohesive New Work

A synthesis is a piece of writing that combines information from two or more sources. If a writer is explaining a concept or event,...