Summer Reading Research Paper
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet & Night
Types of sources
You might use to these to support your ideas:
Reference sources (factual, non-bias information)
News articles / investigative reports (written by reporters/journalists)
Opinion pieces (written by someone with appropriate credentials and uses reasoned evidence, not shocking language or images that appeal to your emotions).
Reports/statistics
Websites: government (.gov) or organizations (.org or .com)
Videos (created / edited by person or organization with appropriate credentials)
Media Center Databases
Databases are purchased by the school and contain articles, images, video by authoritative sources. Try simple keywords like [border detention centers]. Simple keywords work better in databases because there are a limited number of articles and the database is often specialized (i.e. history, literature, news).
ABC-CLIO American History (Background information)
Facts on File History Research Center (Encyclopedias, essays, news, primary sources)
Gale US History in Context (Encyclopedias, essays, news, primary sources)
Gale World History in Context (Encyclopedias, essays, news, primary sources)
World Culture and Geography (for history of a particular area)
Proquest CultureGrams (for history of a particular area)
SIRS Researcher (Issues, news, gov't sources, encyclopedias)
New York Times (activate subscription using nytimes.com/passes)
Helpful non government organizations:
Internet searches
Try different keywords - you will get different results - experiment. Start out broad ex: [immigration detention united states ]. Add keywords like "condition" OR "children" OR "statistics" OR "conditions" OR standards"
Click on News for news articles (use Tools to adjust dates: this got major news coverage in 2018 / 2019)
Click on Video (The same rules about vetting or checking for credibility, purpose, date apply.)
Go past the first page of results
Internet searching tools
Internet searches.webmCite Your Sources
Noodletools will help you cite your sources.
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