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Social Justice Research

How to Identify and Locate Key Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources for Social Justice Research 

Keywords - Sources, Database, Note-taking, Citation 

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Collection Elements

1. Think About Your Search Parameters and Note-taking

What is propaganda? What is bias? How are each of these terms used in deceptive, or misleading advertisement?

2.  Start Your Research
Tertiary Source

Use Encyclopedias to begin learning about your topic and finding key words - "you don't know what you don't know".

World Book

Encyclopedia Britannica

Canadian Encyclopedia

United Nations Human Rights

3.  Continue with Databases
Secondary Sources

Switch to database searching to deepen your understanding.

4. Search for Reliable News Sources
Primary Sources

Using non-commercial browsers helps find what you are looking for. Use search parameters: AND, OR, NOT, AROUND (_)

5. Evaluate Sources

How to determine your source is "quality".

6. Citation

Citing your sources is equal in value to the notes you take.

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