Pathfinder: Current Events
Step 1: Define your task: Look at the assignment/essential
question.
Suggestions for selecting a topic:
Browse current issues of magazines and
newspapers.
Scan online websites for magazines and
newspapers. Try some of these websites:
“Today’s
News” from SIRS Knowledge Source. Click
on the “Database Features” tab and then the “Today’s News” button. This is a list of the most important news
items listed by Reuters (an international
news service.)
The Washington
Post website: http://washingtonpost.com
The Washington
Times website: http://washingtontimes.com
The New
York Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/
Time
Magazine
website: http://www.time.com/time/
Newsweek website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/
US
News and World Report website: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
Science
News website: http://www.sciencenews.org/
Entertainment
Weekly website: http://www.ew.com/ew/
Step 2: What materials might be useful for the project?
Books, Online Databases (magazine and newspaper indexes), newspaper and
magazine websites.
Step 3: Find the material.
Step 4: Use the
material. Read it and take notes. CITE
YOUR SOURCES!!! Citation worksheets are
available in the library or in your Blackboard Library Learning Center course under Citations.
Step 5: Synthesize the
information: Prepare and present the poster. PREPARE YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Step 6: Evaluate: Does
the poster you created explain an area of interaction. Have you met the
requirements for the assignment?
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