Name _______________________________

 

Teacher/period ________________________

 

 

                                            Career Research Project

 

 

                        _______________________________________________

                                       (career/area of interest you are researching)

 

 

A.  Find the name of an historic person in your career. 

   

                        ________________________________________________

 

 

            1.   Using any of the resources in the Library, including the OPAC, encyclopedias or reference books, look up at least three facts about your person.

 

                  Take notes, using note cards or scratch paper.

 

 

            2.  Write down all the information that you will need for your Works Cited page about the source you have just used.

 

BOOK:

 

            Title ____________________________________________________

 

            Author __________________________________________________

 

OR      Place of publication ________________________________________

 

            Publisher/company _________________________________________

 

            Date of publication _________________________________________

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA:

 

            “Title of article” __________________________________________

 

            Author (if given) _________________________________________

 

            Title of encyclopedia ______________________________________

           

            Year of edition ___________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

B. Use EBSCO Host on the Bear River Library Online Research page find either a magazine or newspaper article giving information about your career or area of interest.

 

            Take notes, using note cards or scratch paper.

 

            1. Write down all the information that you will need for your Works Cited page about the source you have just used.

 

            Title ____________________________________________________

 

            Author ___________________________________________________

 

            Magazine/Newspaper Title ___________________________________

 

            Date published _____________________________________________

 

 

 

 

C.  Using the Career Hotlist on the BRHS desktop find information about your career in any one of the links.  Make sure you know where to find the web site outside of the Career Hotlist.

 

 

            1. Write down all the information that you will need for your Works Cited page about the source you have just used.

 

 

            Author or creator ___________________________________________

 

            Name of website ___________________________________________

 

            URL (address) _____________________________________________

 

            Date the site was viewed _____________________________________