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This document provides tips for conducting productive searches to find relevant sources for a research paper. It recommends searching for sources that are related to your thesis, reliable, and recent. Databases and library catalogs are suggested as they contain vetted sources. Keyword and subject heading searches within these resources can produce results, but keyword searches may be too broad so the document offers strategies like using quotation marks, Boolean operators, or examining subject headings to focus searches. Once sources are found, it reminds to properly cite them using the style guidelines.
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Progress-o-meter
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MLA In-Text Essentials
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The Inquiry & Writing Process: An Analogy
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Writing: Frame and Explain
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Thesis Presentation FAQs
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Citing Sources: In-text Documentation
This document provides guidance on citing sources in-text for a research paper using MLA style. It explains that in-text citations include the author's last name and page number in parentheses, and that the period goes inside the closing parenthesis unless it is citing a block quote. It provides examples of how to cite different sources, such as books with one or multiple authors, sources without authors, speeches, and electronic sources. It also covers citing multiple sources together and formatting block quotes and their citations. The document aims to teach students the proper way to include in-text citations in a research paper.
Citing Sources
This document provides guidance on using MLA citation style for in-text citations and reference lists. It explains that in-text citations are used to attribute information to sources and include the author's last name and page number. For books, only the author's last name and page number are included in citations, while for internet sources only the author's last name is used. The reference list, titled "Works Cited," lists full citations for each source in alphabetical order, with subsequent lines of each entry indented. Guidance is provided on formatting citations whether quoted information is embedded in the text or included parenthetically.
English Department Electives
This document describes several English elective courses focused on creative writing, drama, journalism, public speaking, and TV broadcasting. Students in the creative writing course will experiment with different writing genres and techniques and share their work. The drama course involves improvisational games and explores set design, theater styles, and film studies. Journalism students write articles for the school newspaper on topics they care about and learn skills like photo, design, and legal rights. Public speaking covers informative, demonstrational, personal, and debate speeches. TV broadcasting has students write, direct, produce and deliver news and morning announcements.
A Day In The Life of The PowerPoint Puppies
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Themes: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a blossoming of African American culture from 1918-1937, especially in literature, that sought to define black identity and heritage apart from stereotypes like minstrel shows. It was precipitated by the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities like Harlem, where new social and economic opportunities fostered racial pride. The Harlem Renaissance laid the groundwork for modern African American literature and influenced the Civil Rights movement. Important contributors included poets Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen and author Zora Neale Hurston.
Color-coded Notes
The document provides guidance on taking effective notes for research papers. It emphasizes using different colors to distinguish notes from different sources, putting quotes in your own words, taking more notes than needed, and only using peer-reviewed sources such as journals, books, and databases. Notes should be organized with citations and include the student's own analysis. Color-coding notes and citations helps keep track of sources.
Blogger Setup
This document provides instructions for setting up a blog on Blogger.com. It outlines the steps to sign in with a Google account, choose a safe username to protect identity, name the blog and customize the blog. The final step is to write the first blog post after creating the new blog.
Ning Setup
The document provides instructions for setting up an account on the Ning network. It details going to the Ning site, creating a username without a last name that is school appropriate, filling out a contract with login information, and customizing the profile page by adding a cover photo and first blog post.
Writing Business Letters
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Summer Reading English 4 Texts
This document provides summaries of books recommended for summer reading for students entering English 4 and AP English. It includes 3 sentence summaries of 20 books sorted into categories such as teen issues, sports, adventure, fantasy/other worlds, science & technology, romance, historical fiction, mystery/suspense/thrillers, friendships, and cultural & social issues. The books cover a wide range of genres and topics to appeal to different interests.
Turnitin
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Productive Searching
- 1. Productive Searching Finding Sources for Your Paper
- 2. What do you want to find? • Relevant sources ▫ Related to your thesis statement • Reliable sources ▫ From a trustworthy place (databases & news sources) • Recent sources ▫ Information gets old quickly these days. Find the most up-to-date info you can.
- 3. Where should you look? • Books are excellent resources. • Databases are also a good option. ▫ Information has been reviewed by an editor ▫ Someone was (likely) paid to write & research for each article • News sites and search engines are good backups. ▫ Try http://news.google.com
- 4. How do you find it?
- 5. Keyword Searches • user enters the words they’ve come up with • search looks for words anywhere in the record • same process you use when you “Google”
- 6. WARNING! • Keyword searches can produce A LOT of results.
- 7. Keyword Search Strategies to Focus Results • Use quotation marks. ▫ Surround words with them to search for exact phrases. i.e. “global warming” instead of global warming
- 8. Keyword Search Strategies to Focus Results • Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) ▫ AND will search for entries that contain both keywords ▫ OR will search for entries that contain one of, the other, or both keywords ▫ NOT will return results that have the first keyword, but not the second
- 9. How would the results of these searches be different from each other? 1. Teens and pregnancy 2. Teens or pregnancy 3. Teens not pregnancy
- 10. Subject Heading searches • User clicks on or searches Subject Headings, which are predetermined categories in which databases place each article • Subject headings must use terms as they are found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) list
- 11. Subject Heading Search Strategies • Select Subject from the search options and type the beginning of the subject heading. • Subheadings are listed alphabetically after a main heading: Examples: france--history--revolution women--italy censorship--united states—encyclopedia
- 12. Subject Heading Search Strategies • If you don't know the correct subject heading… ▫ find at least one record relevant to your topic by doing a Keyword search. ▫ Select a record from your search results and look at the Full record display. ▫ Then use the subject heading(s) found in the record that most closely matches your topic for additional subject heading searches.
- 13. Use advanced searches to help you manipulate the results so that you find what you’re looking for!
- 14. What do you do once you’ve found it?
- 15. Cite it! • Use your planner, easybib.com, or Noodle Tools. • Use MLA format. • And, as a reminder, use in-text citations to point your reader to the source of your information.
- 16. Works Cited “Keyword Search.” Columbia University Libraries Online Catalog. Columbia University. Web. 29 Jan. 2013. “Subject Search.” Columbia University Libraries Online Catalog. Columbia University. Web. 29 Jan. 2013.