Fossil site investigation
Updated Term 1 2022
Research advice
- Wikipedia is good for an overview but can also contain complex information. Don't just copy and paste information that you don't understand. Either work out what it means, or leave it out.
- Keep an eye out for pages from museums, especially natural history museums. Also look for pages from institutions like National Geographic and the Smithsonian.
- Keep an eye our for articles, blog posts etc from people who have dug at the sites.
- Try adding inurl:.edu to the end of your search. This will limit the results to educational websites and will help you to find pages from universities who have focussed on the sites.
- Try adding inurl:.gov to the end of your search (but not at the same time as inurl:.edu or you won't get many results!). This will limit the results to government websites and you will find government agencies who specialise in geographic information.
- If you are using a website that isn't published by experts like museums, universities or government websites, make sure you remember to evaluate it to decide if it's both trustworthy and relevant. Follow the link to find out how to do that.
- If Google isn't giving you useful results, try Sweetsearch, which is a search engine designed to find websites with the sort of information that students need.
- You can use the SLASA Referencing Generator for your bibliography.
- If you get stuck finding useful information, try using some of the tricks below.
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