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**Ms. Walton**
 * Summative 4C Information Report** Research Path

__ **SOCIAL lSSUES** __

**Social isolation, Homelessness, Poverty, Escapism, Abuse, Dependence, g, Addiction, History of Social Welfare Support** **Family violence, Jeannette Walls**

** Other : topic related to 1950’s or to America ** ** Small Town America ** ** Class Structure in Canada ** __ **Use SWL Wikispaces for all your links** __

**http://swllibrary.wikispaces.com**

** This gives you direct links to SWL Library (Researcher) Ottawa Public Library (Articles and Research Online, and Online Databases (Knowledge Ontario) ,all guides for Bibliography and Works Cited. **

**Interviews, case studies, and questionnaires**

**Keep in mind - prompts like** **Factual information and statisitics**


 * **Symptoms**
 * **Prevention**
 * **Causes**
 * **Social impact**
 * **Impact on individual**
 * **Effects on the family**
 * **What help is available**
 * **Effects on social life, family life, school life**

**General research : Find out general and current information about your topic** **Start thinking about your headings for your report** **100’s Psychology** **300’s (306) Canadian Families**

**360’s Alcohol / Addictions / Drugs**

** General research : Check our Researcher to find books in our library or use the Ottawa Public Library. (Sections are Law, Sociology, Criminology, World Issues, Psychology ** **Find out general and current information about your topic.**

__ ONLINE Resources __

** 1. Statistics Canada – current stats **

[|**http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html**]

** 2. Ottawa Public Library Databases (current articles) **

**3. Google Timeline** [|**http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/**] **For Current Articles** **Click on “ Show Year” - left tab** **Be specific in your search**

** .When you are using the Ottawa Public Library Online (Excellent current information) [] **


 * ** Use your library card and access hundreds of magazine and journal articles. Go to the Ottawa Public Library website (you will need your OPL library card barcode as your password and the last four digits of your phone number as the pin number) **
 * Click on “Articles and Research”
 * Click on “Browse all Databases” (menu on left).

**Choose** · ** e-library Canada - choose “newspapers”, audio/video, podcasts ** · **Academic OneFile** · **Reference Gold Centre** · **Criminal Justice Collection**

**3. Organizations which deal with your issue : Government of Canada, Justice Department, Health Canada, various organizations which deal with your issue,**

__ **Presentation with visuals suggestions for resources:** __ Have fun with the quotations – you might include pictures on the internet which complement or enhance your quote u [] [] []
 * Blog, powerpoint, poster, or photoessay **
 * Include a brief description of each image/photo and an explanation about the link to your report topic – how do these images reflect your topic and how they relate to the literature? **
 * __ Quotations, songs, poems, blogs, Google Timeline (for newspaper headlines and articles, __**