2nd+Semester+Research+FUN

//**__Choosing a Topic - Due Monday, March 5 (first come, first served)__**//

 * Your topic should be something that has significance in the modern world
 * Your topic must be specific to a particular country or region within a country
 * Be sure there is sufficient current historical research available (primary and secondary sources) from the last 10 years (could be older if still applicable to a modern issue)
 * This means that you must look online for RELIABLE sources ([|go here to check out how to evaluate sources)] - online [|historical journals] (written by historians), news articles, letters, diaries/journals (eyewitness accounts)
 * Go to [|ocpl.org] for search your topic for possible books - you must have at least 3 books on the topic (or portions of books). This often requires some creativity - use the index or table of contents
 * Go to [|amazon.com] and search your topic, get the title of the book, and look up that book on the library website (ocpl.org)
 * Orange County library also provides [|access to magazines and journals] such as //[|Time], National Geographic, [|Smithsonian]//,//[| History Today]// etc. through ocpl.org (you can access with your OC Library card)
 * ====** DO PLENTY OF RESEARCH BEFORE YOU CHOOSE YOUR TOPIC **. Once you select your topic, it will not be convenient to change it.====

//**__ [|Considerations before choosing a topic] __**// //**__ [|Steps for choosing a topic] __**//

Research paper links

[|Cornell University - Evaluating Web sources]

[|Northeastern University - Ways to find reliable primary and secondary sources]

[|Orange County public library]

[|Student Guide to History - 10th ed.]

[|Student's Guide to History, 11th ed.]

[|Library of Congress - Country Studies]

[|Plagarism/Paraphrasing Tutorial]

[|Historian's Toolbox - (some links do not function properly, but there is still good info]

[|Engaging Students with Primary Sources]

[|American History Links][|How to draft a thesis statement]

[|George Washington University - Special Collections]

[|British Library]

[|Veterans of War - Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, WW]

[|History Guide - some Immigration, afghanistan, Holocaust denial, etc]

[|Publication on Health Findings - Chernobyl]

[|Poverty in India]

[|Colombia Drug War]

[|UN Forum on Crime and Society]

[|Terrorism in Europe]

[|India Poverty]

[|World Bank.org - Look here for all topics - possibilities for everyone]