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RESEARCH TIPS<br />

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Stranded at sea<br />

Research project<br />

Choose another well-known case of someone or something becoming stranded at sea from the list<br />

below, or find one of your own. Use the tips to help you create a news segment about it.<br />

• April 1959–Today, Many Cuban refugees are stranded at sea off the US coast every year after<br />

escaping from communist Cuba.<br />

• January 2004, More than 250 Liberian refugees are stranded at sea off the coast of West Africa<br />

when the El Shaddei’s engines failed.<br />

• January 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan are left at sea after scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef,<br />

Australia.<br />

• September 2003, 500 sheep are stranded at sea aboard the Cormo Express in the Persian Gulf<br />

because the Saudi government believed the sheep were infected by the disease scabby mouth.<br />

• April 2002, The crew of the tugboat American quest rescues a small, white dog that has been<br />

stranded aboard a refueling tanker off the coast of Honolulu, USA, for 24 days.<br />

Use a newspaper or magazine article, books or the Internet to research the event. Use two or more<br />

sources, such as three different websites, including a newspaper site.<br />

How to use newspapers and magazines …<br />

• Sources the author used are often listed at the end of the<br />

article. Find the books or articles to learn more details.<br />

Remember to list all of your sources.<br />

• Take notes about the information, but remember to use<br />

your own words when writing about it. If you use a direct<br />

quote, use quotation marks and state the reference,<br />

including the title, the article and page number where<br />

you found it.<br />

How to look for a book on the subject …<br />

• Using your library’s catalogue, do a title search or a<br />

subject search. Type the keywords ‘stranded at sea’ and<br />

the place, date, person’s name involved in the event.<br />

How to find<br />

information on the<br />

Internet …<br />

• Photographs, maps,<br />

diagrams, charts and<br />

displays always make<br />

research projects more<br />

interesting. Use these visual<br />

aids to print and use with<br />

your report.<br />

Viewing Sample<br />

• If a book is shelved by author, it is a fictional or<br />

biographical book. Most nonfiction books are shelved by<br />

number using the Dewey decimal system. Use nonfiction<br />

or biographical books only.<br />

• Not everything on the<br />

Internet is correct! Be sure<br />

to find the information on<br />

a site that ends with .edu,<br />

.org or .gov. Or find the<br />

same information in three<br />

separate places. Maybe<br />

your school knows of some<br />

websites that may be of<br />

use. Ask your teacher or<br />

librarian for help.<br />

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