SOURCES for RESEARCH:

English 11 Education Reform Project

This web page is also known as:

http://tinyurl.com/ghsedreform

Your bibliography (or body of research) should reflect a thorough investigation of your subject.  “Thorough investigation” means going beyond a basic google search. It means considering multiple points of view from credible sources, communicating with experts, and can even mean gathering information through observation outside of Greely or the World Wide Web.

RESEARCH PLAN DOCUMENT (Gunn)

CONSIDER:

Newspaper or Magazine Articles (print or published online)

Washington Post

New York Times

The Atlantic

Guardian Teacher Network

Hechinger Report

EdWeek

EducationNews

eSchoolNews

T.H.E. Journal

A.S.C.D. Educational Leadership

EducationNext

PRIMARY SOURCES:

Historical Documents

Artifacts such as photographs, artwork, or architectural structures

First-hand written accounts (memoir, personal essays, diary, journals)

Previously recorded interviews or testimony

Educational Websites

Non-Profit Websites (that promote awareness or give factual or anecdotal information for non-commercial purposes) & blogs

Edutopia

MindShift QED

Ted Videos

Carnegie Foundation

ASCD's Educational Leadership

Curated Collections of Sources                      

***Mrs. Gunn's collection of articles organized by topic***

Mrs. Guild's Padlet: http://padlet.com/jguild/me0ospylkssi

Mrs. Perkinson's Blog "Beyond the Stacks" (use file cabinet to search for articles by tag)

Sources or Articles used by expert authors and found on a Works Cited Page of any of the above sources.

PRIMARY RESEARCH conducted by you:

• 1. Interviews

  2. Personal Observations

  3. Data Collection

  4. Testimony

and other sources to gather multiple perspectives or for inspiration: (use sparingly)

Commercial Websites

Social Media blurbs, arguments, or dialogue based primarily on opinion

Artistic, Musical, or Comic Interpretations of your subject

Citing your sources

We use MLA format at GHS. 

For extensive help with MLA citations, see Mrs. Perkinson's Guide to MLA 8

Each citation includes this basic information of a cited source in this order, with this punctuation, and this indentation format:

Author’s Last Name, Author’s first name. “Title of the Article.”  Title of the Website,

Magazine, book, etc. in italics. Any version of numbers such as vol.3 or posting

dates such as Jan 1993. Publisher or Sponsor and publishing date such as 3 Mar 2003.  Type or Medium of Source such as Web or Print.  Date you accessed the source such as 4 Feb 2015. <URL>

NOTICE THE BASIC INFORMATION THAT IS INCLUDED IN EVERY CITATION:  

Name. Title. Publication. Edition. Publisher, Date Created. Medium.

Date accessed.

Example of a Website Citation:

Author’s name (if not found, leave blank). “Title of Webpage or Website.” Name

of website in italics. Name of institution/organization/publisher/sponsor

of the site (If you don’t see this at bottom of page next to copyright, check

About Us, Contact Us links on site), Date of site/page creation. Web. Date

of access.