The document provides tips for effective research from several students. It emphasizes the importance of reading for relevancy, identifying emotional bias, automatically generating works cited, using broad search terms, identifying topic relevance, and having enthusiasm.

1. To do research, you can’t just go to Google, type your topic, and click on the first topic to pop up. Thomas Bond

2. When researching, it’s important to read for relevancy . Vicky V.

3. When researching, it’s important to realize when information has another person’s emotional feelings added to it. Noon T.

4. With Noodletools.com, we don’t have to make the works cited by hand. Fortunately, it creates the list automatically. Anthony A. Tetsushiro K.

5. I discovered how difficult it truly is to find dependable information. Stephanie E.

6. What I would do differently next time is to always copy down the information for a works cited right away when I find the source. Khamrone K.

7. I learned two new research tools. They are NewsBank and EBSCO. NewsBank is my favourite because the school library collection is very easy to use. Nanoko U.

8. The first thing I learned about researching, and what I think is most important, is to look for very broad key words. James A..

9. ISB’s search engines, made it rather easy because there were many sources which I was able to use (EBSCO, NewsBank). Tetsushiro K.

10. You need to summarize key ideas in your own words. Stella D.

11. You must be able to clearly identify the topic of each article and then see if it connects to your research topic. Michael H.

12. The most important thing about research is having enthusiasm. Philip C.

13. If we knew what it is we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein