Stay source critical to the information you find, especially when it comes to material freely available online. Always try to find and cite the primary source in your papers, instead of secondary sources where the information can be misinterpreted or false.
Pay attention to how your digital foot steps are stored in online search engines. This means that you will receive information based on who you are, your interests, your search history, your location and what sites you have visited before.
The film below from Code.org (5:12) explains shortly what is going on when doing searches online:
Se en interaktiv presentation över hur sökningar i Google går till:
Source criticism according to the SIFT-method follows four steps:
Källa: https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/.
Would you like to start your project by reading the most influential articles written on the topic? Make sure that you don't miss including the classics to your paper. For this you might want to find out which articles are the most cited.Try using a citation database. We have currently access to three databases: