1. Noodletools and IVF Summaries
Haws and Wells
November 2013

2. Today’s Agenda
• Objectives
– Create bibliographic
citation for article
– Read and mark-up
article
– Create IVF summary
topic sentence
• Supplies
– Laptop
– Article
– Pencil or pen

3. Standards
• RI 8.2 Determine a central idea of a text and
analyze its development over the course of the
text, including its relationship to supporting
ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
• W 8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple
print and digital sources, using search terms
effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of
each source; and quote or paraphrase the data
and conclusions of others while avoiding
plagiarism and following a standard format for
citation.

4. Step 1
• Log in to your computer. Open a browser and
navigate to the Library Homepage.
• Read the article all the way through.

5. Step 2
• Find the article online –
– Search strategy?
• Open Noodletools
– Create new project – Online Speech Issues
– Create new citation
• What kind?
• What do we need?

6. Step 2
• Read the article and mark up
– Underline important ideas (looking for main idea
and supporting details)
– ! = This is surprising
– ? = This makes me wonder…
– ?? = What does this mean?

7. Step 3
• IVF Summary – creating a topic sentence for
an objective summary
– Identify
– Verb
– Finish