0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Okay, so in this video we're looking at researching and using reliable sources in your own work. 1 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Step 1. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Brainstorm everything you know about the topic, the assignment, the article, and that should 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 take you more than 10 or 15 seconds, it really should take you a good 10 minutes. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Step 2. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 It's time to research on the internet once you've done that brainstorm because the best 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 ideas in the brainstorm come towards the end. 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:41,000 So avoid typing the keywords because if you do that you could get, the way I did, 186 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:49,000 million results just by putting the words, but if you put the keywords in inverted commas 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 then the search engine will find only the texts that have those keywords. 10 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 You want to look for information by a reliable source and so it's useful here to put the 11 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,000 keywords, the word site, colon, and then that reliable source, and if you can see then my 12 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,000 search narrowed down to about 83 results, which is excellent. 13 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 What if we forget to put the inverted commas so that we only receive the text with that 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 information? 15 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Well, you'll see an example here where I've researched water pollution, I didn't put inverted 16 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 commas and there are so many results. 17 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Look at the organisation, if it's not reliable scroll down because usually the first one 18 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,000 that comes along isn't reliable and as you can see here further down was the National 19 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Geographic. 20 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:51,000 So once you've found your reliable and your useful information, what next? 21 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Step three, paraphrase the information into your own words. 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 This is very, very important. 23 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Don't use the exact words in the text that you've looked for that information. 24 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 So how do we find and write those ideas down? 25 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I'll show you that now, identifying the key ideas to paragraphs. 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Read the whole paragraph and identify the key, the important ideas. 27 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Remember the key ideas are not the example. 28 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 So I will read this text. 29 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:28,000 From big pieces of garbage to invisible chemicals, a wide range of pollutants end up in our planets, 30 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 lakes, rivers, streams, groundwater, and eventually the oceans. 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Water pollution along with drought inefficiency and an exploding population has contributed 32 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,000 to a freshwater crisis, threatening the sources we rely on. 33 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 So this is the text. 34 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,000 It's then important to find the two or the three words, they're usually in the first 35 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 sentence or in the last, and highlight those words. 36 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:59,000 The key words in this text are wide range of pollutants, water pollution, and freshwater 37 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 crisis. 38 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Once you've found those key words, you then have to put them in your own words. 39 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:15,000 So I changed wide for huge, range for variety, pollutants for products that contaminate. 40 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 And the last thing you have to remember to do is to cite or write down the sources in 41 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 your bibliography, whether they be text, pictures, audios, write that down. 42 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Thank you.