Project Set-up

Make a new Google doc:

• Rename the Doc: Your Name's Social Justice Sources (e.g. Ms. Boninti's Social Justice Sources)
• Share the Doc with your teacher

Make a copy of the Note-taking Template

• Rename the Doc: Your Name's Social Justice Notes (e.g. Ms. Boninti's Social Justice Notes)
• Share the Doc with your teacher

Step 1: Background Research and Hard Evidence

Open a background article on your topic.

• Copy and paste the citation for your background article into your 'Sources' and 'Notes' Google Docs.
• Print out the article.
• Read the article and highlight the hard evidence.
• Take notes. Copy and paste a passage that you highlighted into the 'Direct Quote' section of the note card. Paraphrase the quote and add a comment (i.e. Comment = your analysis of the quote).
• Locate 1 additional article in the ABC-CLIO Issues database.
• Print the article

Recommended Websites

• Pew Research Center
• Human Rights Watch
• National Public Radio
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• FiveThirtyEight
• American Civil Liberties Union
• US Department of Justice
• National Congress of American Indians
• New York Times
• National Organization for Women

Step 4: Independent Work

• Conduct advanced searches in the recommended databases and Google to locate relevant articles on your research topic.
• Cite your sources.
• Print your articles.
• Highlight hard evidence.
• Take notes.

Step 5: Outlining and In-Text (Parenthetical) Citations

• Create an outline and fill in research gaps.
• Review the Parenthetical Citation Quicksheet

Step 6: Fixing up the Works Cited

• Use these instructions to put the finishing touches on your Works Cited doc: How to Format a Works Cited List in MLA 8 Style Using Google Docs