Researching a topic

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Researching a topic
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Choose an topic to research

• School uniformMc Fly v Busted
• Mobile phones in school Play Station v X
  Box Who should the England manager be? Speed
  limits The Euro Euthanasia Animal
  experimentation Eating meatAbortion
• Increasing the smoking age
• Any current political issue

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Task A

• Use the search queries / techniques, you have
  learnt over the last 3 weeks, to find information
  that will support your argument.
• Remember
• Key words
• Synonyms
• Reliable URLS, e.g. .gov, .ac, etc
• Precise strings
• AND / OR / NOT

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Task B

• In the notes section, answer the following
  questions
• What topic have you chosen to research?
• Are you in favour or against your topic?
• What is your success criteria?

Examples of Success Criteria The argument must
be persuasive The presentation must be
interesting, attractive and understandable Your
information must be relevant The sources of your
information must be recorded. (i.e. say which web
sites you got your info from) Must be well
presented (i.e. have good pictures, colours
etc) Good content in understandable words
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Task C

• Include images and sounds
• Acknowledge your sources
• Get feedback and improve your presentation
• What parts of your presentation were fact and
  which parts were opinions.