DATABASES

Use the Gale academic database to help you with quality research. 

Gale Opposing ViewPoints

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration and more.  It includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. The database also has encyclopedia and reference books, and periodical content that covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. 

Gale Middle School

Gale in Context Middle School provides reliable content written for students in grades 6–12 on 450+ of the most-studied topics. Age appropriate videos and articles await researchers. You can learn about writers, artists, musicians, and much more with audio resources, biographies, reference materials, and primary sources, all available through our school district's Gale database access. 

CITATIONS

Here are two excellent sites to use to help you with citing your work: 

Research Methods and Citing Sources Guide from Citation Machine's website. (This site also has a citation creator.)

MLA Style and Formatting Guide from Purdue Owl at Purdue University. (This site also has a citation creator.)

PLAGIARISM

Use the site below to help you with making sure you have created a paper that is your own thoughts, putting research to work for your ideas, without copying others ideas and information. 

Plagiarism is not an essay of your own, it is copying someone else. This can be tricky to learn as there are so many things already on the internet, it can be hard to understand how to create ideas of your own with so many already available. 

Use this site to help you identify where you have "copied" others ideas instead of creating your own.