• Knowing where to look and how to begin are key concerns for students who are starting a research project: this Pocket will guide readers through the maze of finding and evaluating information
• Provides guidance on how to design a strategic search plan that will help stretch students' understanding of a topic
• Outlines useful strategies for evaluating evidence
• Explores how to present evidence in an interesting way, how to address conflicting points of view, and how to guide a reader through your argument
• Provides applications for the skills developed in evaluating and using evidence beyond academia

INTRODUCTION
PART I: WHY GOOD EVIDENCE MATTERS
Chapter 1: What do we mean by evidence?
Chapter 2: But what's the right answer?
Chapter 3: What are my lecturers looking for?
Chapter 4: Using Wikipedia and other factual sources
PART II: CHOOSING YOUR EVIDENCE
Chapter 5: Finding your focus
Chapter 6: Information 'flavours'
Chapter 7: Where to start
Chapter 8: Collecting your evidence: a 4-step plan
Chapter 9: Taking it further
PART III: EXPLORING YOUR EVIDENCE
Chapter 10: Getting your feet wet: skim reading strategies
Chapter 11: Squeezing out the juice: summarising your skim reading
Chapter 12: Active notemaking
Chapter 13: Stepping stones: finding your way to (and through) more material
PART IV: USING YOUR EVIDENCE
Chapter 14: Putting the pieces together
Chapter 15: Dealing with conflicting evidence
Chapter 16: Building the 'spine' of your argument
Chapter 17: Signposting your evidence
PART V: EVIDENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Chapter 18: Reading between the lines-uncovering bias in everyday information
Chapter 19: Social biases and structural inequality
Chapter 20: Dealing with misinformation and fake news
CONCLUSION
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