The seven deadly sins of health and science reporting
Try searching Google or MSN News or try limiting your search to the notorious source of poor information below:
Natural News [poor quality health and science reporting found here]
"When Natural News began, it was basically the blog and sales portal of anti-pharmaceutical activist Mike Adams. His basic premise has always been the Big Pharma conspiracy, the idea that the medical industry secretly wants to keep everyone sick, and conspires with the food industry to make people unhealthy, all driven by a massive plot of greed to sell poisonous medicines."
The MRU Undergraduate Research Guide has some Tips for Creating & Presenting Infographics
If you are interested in more infographic tools check out this blog post
Consider what products you use in your house. Look them up to find their ingredients and start your research from there.
You can also check out the Consumer Product Information Database (cpid)
A few library books of interest:
Reminder: Your assignment requires you to find and use 3 website and 2 books -at least one of which should be a (print or online) encyclopedia or reference book.
Find out more: Copyright guide for students
Tips for Oral Presentations section of the MRU Undergraduate Research Guide contains some helpful advice on public speaking.
You are allowed to choose your citation style of choice; once you have chosen one, remember to be consistent!
The Chemistry Citation Guide can be a good resource for citation for your labs and assignments and provides Chemistry-specific citation examples in APA and ACS.
If you require more help with ACS try the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication website.
1) Your paraphrased text should be significantly different from the original (i.e. don't just change a few words here and there)
2) You must change the structure of the sentence or paragraph you are paraphrasing, not just the words.
3) If you use anyone else's words verbatim (word for word) you need to put quotation marks around it.Warning: Quotations are rarely used in the sciences
4) Use proper citation methods (in this case use ACS) to give credit for the ideas, opinions or theories you are presenting.
5) Check that you have preserved the original meaning of the text in your paraphrased version.