Evaluating books, Ancient China, websites, history, research

1. Choosing suitable resources to answer the
research question.
• Identify and locate a range of relevant sources
• Locate information related to inquiry questions in a
range of sources.

2. Choosing the right book
• How helpful is the title?
• The go-to tools – Content Page and Index.

3. The cover

4. *Qin Achievements
*Failures of the Qin
The contents page

5. The Index

6. Structure of Paragraph
The Topic Sentence:
“The Qin’s efforts at standardisation, however, did not
generate animosity and indeed generally received an
enthusiastic response.”

7. Creating a bibliography
using Word
• Open up a new document
• Save it as Year 7 Ancient China Bibliography
• Click on Document Elements
• Go across to the tab Bibliography and click on Manage
• Make sure it says APA at the top
• Click on the + sign
• Begin to fill in the blank spaces from the title page and
copyright page and press OK

8. Task: Using topic sentences to assist in finding information
to answer Focus Questions
• Using the fifth option under the heading “Helpful
Extracts” on the Libguide and what we have learnt about
topic sentences, try to answer the first focus question:
What were Qin Shi Huangdhi’s achievments?
• How useful was the source?
• Using the same extract, try to answer the second focus
question ; How did the achievements effect China?
(positive and negative )
• How useful is the source?