SCIENCE FAIRFALL 2016

REMEMBERING HOW TO FIND A LIBGUIDE.

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5. Open the Works Cited by clicking Sources

6. Now “Create New Citation”:

MLA 8TH EDITION

First one question or “bucket”:Where is it?

Then a second question or “bucket”:

What is it?

6 ITEMS TO CITE FOR A WEBSITE:1. The URL of the website

2. Date of e-publication

3. Author, if there is one.

4. Web PAGE name

5. Web SITE name

6. Publisher of the

website

The important changes:1. Two “buckets” to fill first.2. We now include URLs whenever

appropriate.3. Access date should be filled out.4. ***Read NoodleTools Notes***

REVIEW OF IN-TEXT CITATIONS

What do in-text citations look like?Example for a source with page numbers ie.BOOK or EBOOK: Banks failed, businesses closed, and, at the height of the depression in 1933, one-fourth of Americans were without jobs (Press 17).

What does the in-text citation above mean?

It means that the sentence before it is a paraphrase of information found on page 17 of this source listed in the Works Cited:

Press, Petra. Through the Decades: The 1930s. San Diego: Lucent Books,

1999. Print.

What if I use a quote instead of paraphrasing?Then a BOOK or EBOOK citation would look

like this: “NO JOBS in California. If YOU are looking for work – KEEP OUT. 6 Men for every job. No state relief available for non-residents” (Cooper 8).

What if the source doesn’t have page numbers?

Then it would look like this if it is a PARAPHRASE:Conditions began to improve in the mid-30s, but total recovery was not accomplished until the end of the decade (Romer).

and the same EVEN if it is a DIRECT QUOTE:“Conditions began to improve in the mid-30s, but total recovery was not accomplished until the end of the decade” (Romer ).

And match this source in your Works Cited:

Romer, Christina D. “Great Depression.” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 2011ed. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.

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What if I use information from 2 or more pages in the same source?

Then your paragraph might look like this:

Years of excessive heat, a shortage of rain, and over-farming caused the Dust Bowl disaster (Cooper 12). The people of the mid-West had to suffer both an economic depression and dust, which they could not escape (Cooper 23). Many refugees from the prairie states headed to California to try to earn a living, but California did not want them. A billboard near Tulsa, Oklahoma warned: “NO JOBS in California. If YOU are looking for work – KEEP OUT. 6 Men for every job. No state relief available for non-residents” (Cooper 8).

• What if two of the sources in my Works Cited have the same “first word” or author name? Like this?

Works Cited

"Constitution." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and

Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 2. Detroit: UXL, 2009.

381-385. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 Oct. 2011.

"Constitution." Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. , 2014. Web. 19 Oct.

2011.

Then your in-text citations would look like this:

(Constitution, UXL 382)

(Constitution, Britannica)

PLAGIARISM (N.)

• Using someone else’s words or ideas as your own without giving credit to that person.

• 3 Steps to avoiding plagiarism:• Take bulleted notes in your own words.• Paraphrase your notes.• Cite your sources.

You CAN believe everything you read on the Internet, right?