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Researching Your Subject

Researching Your Subject. Today’s Purpose: Learn to Locate Sources that Confirm or Disprove Information. Things that make you go hmmm….

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Researching Your Subject

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  1. Researching Your Subject Today’s Purpose: Learn to Locate Sources that Confirm or Disprove Information.

  2. Things that make you go hmmm… • Your cousin doesn’t want people to throw rice at her wedding. She says that when birds eat the rice, it swells in their bodies and can kill them. Is your cousin right or not? How would you go about proving or disproving her claim?

  3. Urban Legends, Hoaxes, and other questionable Stories

  4. Urban Legends, Hoaxes, and other questionable Stories • www.snopes.com • urbanlegends.about.com • hoaxbusters.org

  5. How do you keep up on topics you’re interested in?

  6. To Research or not to research • Local high school graduation rates • Advice for the first day of high school • Fuel-efficient cars • Hot cars • Fashion trends

  7. Reasons to research • Research makes you seem smart and gives you credibility. • Research gives you something more to say. • Research can give you ideas for ways to begin or end your speech. • Research can offer a new angle or fresh insight into the topic.

  8. How do I gain credibility? • Expertise • Good Intentions • Trustworthiness

  9. Using the internet: Reliable? • Who sponsors the web site? • A government agency • A university • A reputable newspaper • A reputable organization • Who wrote the content? • Is an author identified? • Are any credentials provided? • Is the cite open to editing? • When was this written? • Look for a publication date

  10. Vocabulary • Claims show that your thesis is valid. • Ex. “It is no problem for rice to be thrown at weddings; birds will not die.” • Claims need to be supported by proof. • Ex. According to Snopes.com…

  11. Supporting Your Thesis • Thesis: Fairy tales like “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs” have given us a false impression of wolves. • Claim: Wolves do not kill human beings. • Proof:According to OregonWild.com There is no documented evidence of a healthy, wild wolf killing a human in the United States. • Proof: There is more threat to humans from dogs than wolves—4.7 million people in the U.S. are attacked by dogs each year.

  12. Types of supporting material • Testimony—using another person’s words to support your claims. • Analogies—a comparison between two things, ideas, or situations. …what occurs in an interrogation room is indeed little more than a carefully staged drama, a choreographed performance that allows a detective and his suspect to find common ground where none exists. • Statistics—numbers presented as facts. • Facts— • Need to be developed • Present facts that are interesting • Tell how you learned the fact you are citing. • According to… • The following information published by… • A study done by… • Research conducted by, , shows…

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