This document provides guidance on conducting research for a written project. It recommends developing a list of guiding questions to focus the research on key topics. A variety of sources should be used, including websites, books, videos, television, newspapers, magazines, and interviews. All sources must be evaluated for bias, validity, and reliability. Finally, sources must be properly cited in a bibliography with relevant publication details.

1. Research
This is one of the biggest sections of
written work and a lot of detail here
is essential to getting a high grade

2. Guiding Questions
• You need to put together a list of guiding questions.
• These are questions that you think you need to answer in
order to find out enough information to make a good
posted
• E.g. One guiding question may be ‘What are the benefits
of my chosen technology?’ You use various sources to
find out information to answer that question.
• Another may be ‘How can I make the video interesting to
a specific age group?’
• Can you think of others? You should have a good range.

3. Sources of Information
You need a RANGE of sources of information to
achieve a top level. E.g.
• Several websites
• A few books
• Videos (YouTube is acceptable)
• Television programmes
• A newspaper article (not from the internet)
• A magazine article (not from the internet)
• Interview an expert

4. Sources
• These sources should be used to answer your guiding questions.
EVALUATING SOURCES
After you have selected your sources of information, you should
evaluate them:
• Are they unbiased?
• Are they valid?
• How reliable are they?
• How do you know this?
• Were they too detailed?
• Did they not give enough detail?
• Were they just right?
• Why?

5. Sources
• All sources should be referenced in a
Bibliography.
• The bibliography should give details of:
– The name of the source, e.g. Book title, Video title,
Internet article title, Magazine name
– The author
– The page number
– The publisher name (for books)
– The website address (websites only)
– The interviewee and date interviewed (interviews
only)
– Video web address (YouTube)