library resources

1. SCIENCE FAIR
FALL 2016

2. REMEMBERING HOW TO FIND A LIBGUIDE.

3. http://westminsterschools.libguides.com/SF2016

4. BOOKMARK THIS

5. GO TO WWW.NOODLETOOLS.COM
SURPRISE! NOODLETOOLS HAS CHANGED!
Sign in. Remember that your
username and password are the
same as what you use to log onto
your laptop.
Create a New Project

6. • Your title
• MLA
• Advanced
• Submit
5. Open the Works Cited by clicking
Sources
6. Now “Create New Citation”:

7. MLA 8TH EDITION
First one question or “bucket”:
Where is it?

8. Then a second question or “bucket”:
What is it?

11. 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

12. 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***

13. 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.

14. 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).

15. 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.
Heads up! Here comes a CHANGE.

16. 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).

17. • 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)

18. 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.

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