Collecting+Information




 * Take notes from sources, separate notes that are not directly related. **

You must learn to skim your sources for information relating to your question. If you do not you will become completely overwhelmed by the information in all of the sources. Your teacher will provide practise for this throughout the year so you can master this skill.

When you find relevant information take notes. This is also a skill you will be supported to learn. It is important for you to write these notes in your own words.

Copying directly from the text is called plagiarism and is like stealing the thinking of the author. There are lots of different styles with differing rules about how to acknowledge the work of other people that can be quite complicated. In our class we use the style below.

Do this as you go and add each source to your bibliography, it is very difficult to get this information at the end of your research and can take hours.
 * In your work... **

You can copy directly from a source but you must place speech marks around the text and write the name of the source in brackets after the quote.

"An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea." (Wikipedia)

If you copy an image you should write where it comes from in brackets under the image. (Waikato Regional Council)

||  || Author (Year Published) Title ||   || Jack Hardisty (2007) Estuaries: Monitoring and Modelling the Physical System || ||  || Author of information, if you can find it (Year Published)Title of Book or Cd Rom: Tile of Article ||   || Author Unknown (2009) World Book: Morocco || ||  || Author of information, if you can find it (Month and Year Published) Name of Newspaper or Magazine : Tile of Article ||   || Mike Day (January 2004) Otago Daily Times: Higher Tides at Christmas || ||  || Author of the email (Date Email was sent) Subject of the email ||   || Lilly Martin (24/06/08) Answers to your questions about schools in Morocco and pictures from our trip there || ||  || Title of site (Date you visited) url address ||   || Wikipedia (20/05/09) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary ||
 * In your Bibliography... **
 * **Source** ||  || **Explanation** ||   || **Example** ||
 * Book
 * Reference Book or CD Rom
 * Newspaper or Magazine Article
 * Email
 * Website, Blog etc