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Step #1:
Use Reviewed Sources for articles, images, and videos from BRITANNICA and EBSCO in WakeID.
Step #1:
Use Reviewed Sources for articles, images, and videos from BRITANNICA and EBSCO in WakeID.
Staff, you'll need to follow these directions to add those two applications to WakeID or go to NCEdCloud to find them there.
Step #2:
Search in the yellow search box using the words you would find in the ideal article.
Step #2:
Search in the yellow search box using the words you would find in the ideal article.
Video Guide - Video Guide - Britannica
Step #3:
Read through the article to see if it answers your research questions. Use Control F to find specific terms.
Step #3:
Read through the article to see if it answers your research questions. Use Control F to find specific terms.
If you like it, you can send it via email or Google Drive to yourself
Each time you find a good source, look for the place on the page to get the MLA Citation. It usually has a check mark. Cut and paste that citation into the document under a list at the end called sources. All of our library resources in Britannica and Ebsco have this, even the images and videos!
Step #4: Didn't find enough? Search Library Resources first, then you may try...
Step #4: Didn't find enough? Search Library Resources first, then you may try...
https://www.wikipedia.org - cut and paste citation to your Works Cited info from a link titled "Cite this Page" (Under "tools" along right side right menu bar)
For Images (and music) you can't find:
Photos for Class - copyright-free for projects
(In Works Cited, give title of image/song and website. "American Flag")
Step #5:
Keep track of what kind of notes you are making.
Step #5:
Keep track of what kind of notes you are making.
Are you writing the exact words of the author, exactly as they appear on the page (including any possible misspellings)? This is a quote and should be put in quotation marks.
Are you putting the information you read in your source into your own words? This is a summary.
PRACTICE
PRACTICE
Which line is a summary ? Which line is a quote?
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Harry's friends were Ron and Hermoine.
Works Cited
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Print.
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