A detailed presentation on how to use Opposing Viewpoints in Context.

1. Exploring Opposing
Viewpoints in Context
By Grace Shaffer

2. Featured Issues
Once you are on the page Opposing
Viewpoints in Context, you will see
featured issues. Featured issues are
issues that this page deems important,
highly researched, or articles that they
believe people would enjoy learning
about. You can scroll through featured
issues by clicking on the arrows found to
the left and right of the screen. The
featured issues are not on a specific page,
simply type in the web address and they
will be the first thing you see.

3. Searching - Basic
Basic searching is very simple. All you
have to do is type in what you would like
to search about and then results will pop
up. When you search use your
knowledge of key words. You do not
have to have a sentence for your search,
for example if you wanted to search,
Climate change and the effects of heat
increase in 2018, put something along the
lines of, 2018 Climate change heat. This
basic search can be used to get your mind
thinking about ideas to specialize your
topic and getting your thinking from
climate change to climate change in 2018
and the effect that heat increase had on
animals habitats.

4. Advanced Search
In order to access the advanced search,
you will click the button to the right of
the basic search bar. Once here, you will
find a series of questions which will help
you narrow down what you would like to
search. Options include, but are not
limited to, title, keywords, publications,
subjects, dates, if the article contains
images, etc. For example, if you are
writing an article that you would like to
put a data table in, you can narrow down
your search and say that you would like
the article to contain images, that way
you have a greater chance at finding a
data table among the results your search
had.

5. Context Types
Once you search for your topic, you will
see on the right hand side of your screen,
context types. With this you can narrow
down what documents you will find in
your search results. Anything from
biographies, statistics, images, videos,
magazines, academic journals, etc, will be
seperated into the respective category.
The number to the right of the categories
are how many sources have been found
for that category. For example, when
searching “climate change” in the basic
search bar, only 5 biographies were
found. Breaking up your search will help
you find exactly what you are looking for.

6. Suggested Topics
Once you type in a search, suggested
topics will pop up at the top of the
screen. You will find that these topics are
related to your search, and may help you
narrow down what you would like to
research. This can also help you find,
opposing views, more narrowed down
topics, or even more general topics.
These can help you receive information
from multiple views. To access the
suggested topics, simply click on the one
you like, and it will take you to different
sources.

7. Viewing Articles
Viewing articles is very
simple. Once you have
completed a successful
search, find a resource that
you would be interested in.
Simply click anywhere on
that resource and it will
open up a new page. This
page will be the resource
that you were interested in.
Feel free to read the article
and gain valuable
information.

8. Highlighting and Note Taking
Highlighting and Note taking may seem
daunting at first, but is a very useful tool.
All you have to do is highlight the text you
would like to highlight or take a note
about with your cursor. Once you have
done this right click. A bar will say
highlight, notes, delete. Simply choose if
you want to highlight or take notes. If
you want to highlight, choose the color.
To take notes, type in the provided box.
If you decided you no longer want a part
of the text highlighted, or with notes,
click delete, and then confirm that you
want the highlight or notes deleted.

9. Understanding all of the Tools
Once you have found an article, to the
right of your screen will be a list of tools.
Among these tools are, citations, to help
you cite your source in a works cited page
or bibliography, highlight and notes, to
view all of the notes you have taken.
Send to Google Drive or OneDrive, to save
the article somewhere other than the
website, print, e-mail, download, send to
my folder to keep it in your resources on
the website, and share, to share it among
other media platforms outside of
Opposing Viewpoints in Context.

10. Bookmarking
Bookmarking can be found to the right of
the basic search bar. It is between
advanced searches, and more menu.
Once you found an article, you can click
bookmark copy the given URL, and then
email it to yourself or others. This will be
helpful when not working directly at
school. You will be able to access your
resources from somewhere other than
school.

11. Viewing your Folder
Once you have saved a document to your
folder, you need to access it. In order to
access your folder, click more, found to
the far right of the basic search bar. My
folder will be to the far right of the drop
down menu. Here is where you will be
able to view all of the articles and
documents that you saved to your folder.
With this, you may once again access all
of your notes that you have taken on the
document, or even just reread the article.

12. Using the Dictionary
Similar to accessing your folder to
get to the dictionary, select more
found next to the basic search bar.
The dictionary will be found second
from the left. Click on the icon and
a box that says Dictionary Search
will pop up (shown right). This
allows you to be able to search any
word that you would like to know.
SImply type in the word and it will
display the words definition, similar
words, and words with similar
spelling.

13. Viewing your Search History
In order to view your search history,
select more found next to the basic
search bar. The search history icon will
be the fourth from the left. Once you
click on this a display of all recent
searches will pop up. Say that you
forgot where you found the perfect
article, look at your recent searches and
narrow down where to look to find it
again.

14. Understanding Curriculum Standards
Curriculum standards can be found to the
lower left hand corner of the search bar.
This can be used to your advantage. Say
you are writing a paper for high school
social studies and are not really sure if
what you were taught in english class
could apply to what you are doing. Go to
curriculum standards, check out all of the
options and a list of questions, ideas,
concepts, etc will pop up. Look and see if
you can find a question related to your
topic and click on the blue text, this might
just lead you to some great sources.

15. Browsing Issues
Browsing issues will be found to the lower
left hand corner of the search bar. It will
be to the right of curriculum standards.
Here you can find topics, issues, etc. It
can be a struggle finding topics for an
essay that is due and when looking
through these issue, an idea may be
shown to you, where you can then
develop a narrower topic to complete
your paper.

16. Educator Resources
Educator resources can be found when
clicking the more menu next to the basic
search bar. On the drop down menu the
educator resources will be to the far left.
Once you click on them other search
engines, tips, apps, worksheets, videos,
etc will show up. If you are a teacher and
teaching a class how to cite sources, a
worksheet, tip sheet, and more can be
found under this tab. This is a great
source to use.

17. Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints in context is an amazing resource to help people research and develop ideas for
themselves, you do not have to be in school or learning about something to use it. All you have to do is be
willing to research a question you have and find the answers you seek.