ENG 100: College Reading and Learning Strategies

The following websites and encyclopedia are great places to start searching for information about your endangered species.

Search Suggestions

• Find the animal’s scientific name; many researchers may refer to it by that instead of its common name.
• “Re-search” means to search again, so you will probably have to do multiple searches across multiple resources.
• When searching for journal or magazine articles, combine your species' name with and aspect of your project like habitat or diet; you can also search for a reason it might be endangered: farming, industrialization, climate change, etc.

Reference sources are summaries of facts, definitions, histories, statistics, and other types of information on large subject areas, organized for quick look up.

• They are sometimes called “background” sources.
• You use these to gain a basic understanding of a concept or issue before moving on to more advanced sources of information.

Journal articles are the published findings of academic studies.

• Many are peer-reviewed, which is an additional check of credibility before the article is published.
• They are very specific and typically only report on one study, so you may need to find several to show what research is being done on you specific species.
• The library page “Understanding Journals” gives more information about what journals are and are not.

Search Suggestions

• Find the animal’s scientific name; many researchers may refer to it by that instead of its common name.
• “Re-search” means to search again, so you will probably have to do multiple searches across multiple resources.
• When searching for journal or magazine articles, combine your species' name with and aspect of your project like habitat or diet; you can also search for a reason it might be endangered: farming, industrialization, climate change, etc.