This page offers some tips on how to direct your students to places that can help them choose a topic, evaluate websites, find books in the library catalog, use Googles advance search page, and some useful definitions related to research. Below are some thought-provoking articles about the research process.
Dismantling the Evaluation Framework
Lateral Reading: College students learn to critically evaluate internet sources in an online course
There are numerous methods to evaluate content found on the web. Sometimes it is easy to determine that the information you have found from a Google search. Let's face it,Google is the first place students go to search for information...and so do we! A more recent method that you will find on many school and college library pages is SIFT. 
The following might give you some ideas for a topic or provide you with a good starting point for your research.
Use Google Advanced Search to construct a better search and more relevant results.
Magazines such as Time or Sports Illustrated contain articles that are for the general public and you may or may not be able to determine who wrote them. Scholarly journals or academic journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine are written by experts in a particular field and have been peer reviewed before publication. The articles will contain works cited, footnotes, and bibliographies.
NoodleTools is an online tool to help you create and save bibliographies. All Rivers students have access. The short videos below will help familiarize you with NoodleTools.
