Simply googling "Gettysburg" will get me almost no where in regards to proving my topic. A general search of your topic will not do you any good. You must narrow the search down. We will be using the internet for much of our research, so google will be an option, but like I said, you MUST narrow your searches to what you actually want to know.
http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-get-more-out-of-google.html
This about what a response from Google might include and put those terms in the search.
1. Prove your sub points first. In my case, I said that the Battle Little Round Top was more important than Pickett's Charge. Soooooo...I might want to start there. Again, if I simply google "Battle of Little Round Top" I'm going to get all kinds of hits on information that will do little to no good for me. I need to search for what I want. I would be much better off searching Affects of Little Round Top on Civil War or something like that. Or, Little Round Top outcomes. A search on this would narrow things down to what happened as a result of this battle and not just random information about the topic. DO NOT ASK GOOGLE QUESTIONS!!
2. Search for all of you sub points. When taking notes, keep them on different pages in your notebook, or on different pages on your iPad. remember to write down the website info, like the URL, the copyright date (if it has one), author's name, date you accessed the material, etc. We will be doing a bibliography.
3. Have separate pages or note cards to help organize the information you want to use to prove your point. I would divide them by sub point. Before you write something down ask the following question: "Does this information that I'm writing down help to prove my point?" If it doesn't help prove your point, then you probably don't need to write it down. If it doesn't help prove your point, then you probably shouldn't put it in your presentations.