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In chapter twelve you learn how to look for reliable sources and how to narrow down a search to find criteria that you actually need for your paper or whatever you need the research for. When you look for a source online make sure you look for reliable sources that are actually written by a person who has research and isn’t just posting their opinion. For example in high school I had to write a report on martin Luther king and if you search martin Luther king jr on Google one of the first results will be a website written by a white supremacist group. Therefore the website is not a reliable source. To narrow down your searches when using online sources you can use “” and it will look for specific texts online that have that phrase or word in it. Let’s say you want to find out how skateboards are made. You would look up “skateboard blueprints” or maybe “skateboard designs” and that should narrow down your sources quite a bit. You can also take the phrase apart and look up maybe the “trucks” of the board or maybe the “bearings” that go inside the wheels. Other sources that are out there are the library databases so if we stick with this idea of a skateboard you may want to search “history of the skateboard” then there will be a selection of articles that are all reliable and will have some association with the history of the skateboard. It can also show you more articles that have to do with your topic. If you continue to search your topic try to stay away from Wikipedia or blogs because the information on those can be extremely unreliable and can really ruin your entire project if you put false info into it. And don’t be afraid to actually open a book and actually look at the index of an encyclopedia and actually find a source that is definitely reliable because it would be a text source that was published and is actually in a library. text sources are probably the most reliable and most helpful sources and will never steer you wrong of you want to really have reliable sources that you can always come back to the old fashioned book it will always help you out.  And please don’t make the same mistake I once made take note of all your sources you will need to go back to them later and may even need them in the future.

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