Hints and Help

Do:	Don't
Ask librarians and media specialists for help in: finding information citing your sources (This is their speciality)	Forget to collect the information about all of your sources. You need it for your "Works Cited." You need it for your parenthetical document in your paper.
Ask your teacher for help and advice as you work. (Your teacher will probably do this anyway.)	Copy and paste directly into your paper or PowerPoint. That's plagiarism!
Write a paper/make a PowerPoint that is to the point.	Bother with information that doesn't address your thesis or research topic. Stick to the point! Don't waste your time with stuff you don't need.
Use the results of your research to prove your points and lead to your conclusions..	Use only one source or kind of source for information That's not research! The Internet is not the only place to do research!!!
Spend time organizing your paper/presentation. Many students collect a bunch of unrelated information and patch it together any old way.  Your paper/presentation should be organized to be logical and make sense.	Use sources like Spark Notes, Pink Monkey, etc. These sources do not impress teachers!