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Raymond House Library: A FACT: Step 2: Find & Record

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Where can I FIND the information I need? How do I RECORD the information I find?

The second step in the research process is to FIND and RECORD what you need. You might need to gather information for yourself via interviews, experiments and questionnaires and sometimes you need to find information that other people have written.

There are three things to think about during this stage:

  1. Finding sources of information like: books, internet sites, videos, data, surveys
  2. Finding information within sources
  3. Recording where the information is from

Find 

Use key words

Before you start searching for information, you need to choose good key words for your search.

Key words are words that describe your research task and are needed for asking the right question in your information search.They can be single words or very short phrases. Consider synonyms too.

Key words are an important part of the ASK Stage

  • With your teacher read through the task sheet and identify key words which will help you locate relevant information to complete this assignment. 
  • Check that you understand the meanings of these words. Find out the meanings or ask your teacher for clarification.
  • Record your keywords in a table. These will be used to search for relevant information in the FIND stage

Use skim and scan

Find Information within a Source -  Skim and Scan

After you have found possible sources of information to answer your research question, you need to find the information within the text. To do this you need to develop the specific reading skills to help you find the information you need quickly and effectively. You need to skim and scan.

                  

 

For beginners with these techniques watch this video: Skim and Scan

For senior students use the Butte College Skim and Scan Tips

Record 

Find Images

Finding Sources - Tips for Effective Searching

When we search, we often get many more responses than we need. Keywords help to retrieve what you need but there are other ways too. This video explains the symbols you can use to limit your search further. It is called Boolean searching. 

Find Music

Find Music

 

 

Find Videos

 

Pixabay

 

 

Pixabay has copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission of the artist.

Videovo

 

 

Videovo has stock videos, motion graphics, music tracks and sound effects. You do not need to ask permission of the creator, but do need to credit them. You must not make the clips available for download elsewhere. 

 

Find Images

Photos For Class

 

 Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flicker SafeSearch and our proprietary filters.
Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms.
Creative Commons - All photos shown are, to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge, licensed by Creative Commons for public use

Pexels

 

 Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.

The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
You can modify, copy and distribute the photos.
All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So, attribution is not required.

Unsplash

 Unsplash photos are made to be used freely. No permission is necessary but accreditation would be honourable.

Google Images

Google Images is a search engine just for images.

You can reverse search, drag and drop or use a URL.For explicit instructions go to: Support for Google Images