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...
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,...
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...
