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Gilder Lerhman Historical Collection

Encyclopedias, Subject Databases, Periodical Indexes

 

 

Research Process

If you are using databases and need a username and password:

Username:  pdslibs

Password: gooddata

Day 1. PLAN Intro to Project,  Choose a Topic in Library.

Day 2. PLAN read about your topic, Lesson onOpen and Closed Questions, write sample questions.

Homework: Work on making Open Research Question for your topic. Review Libguide and how to use it. Decide how you will take notes.

Day 3. PLAN Conference about Research Question, DO Begin to take notes. Find Overview of your topic. Choose notetaking method, including online Popplet.  Discuss why we take notes, plagiarism. 

Day 4. DO Continue to Use sources for notetaking.  Use a variety of sources, and keep track of sources.

Day 5:  DO Continue to Use sources for notetaking.  Use a variety of sources.  Keep track of sources. Revise Research Question as needed. Use both online and print sources. Use Easybib.com to cite.

Day 6: DO Citing sources and integrating quotes into text lesson. 

Day 7: REVIEW Notes to be sure you are answering your research question.  Begin First Draft of Essay.

Day 8: Write Final Draft of Project.

Encyclopedias, General - Try these first!

If you are using databases and need a username and password:

Username:  pdslibs

Password: gooddata

Here is the link for the assignment:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16z_IWI3vCjPWYXO4wEtZ-H1dIeuvDfyOX1hSrUx9mQw/edit?ts=58481a21

Subject Encyclopedias - Try These second!

IN Text Citations Youtube

Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Using Quotations and Works Cited information

Works Cited Page (Or your Bibliography Page)

Be sure your entries are in alphabetical order by last name of author, or, if no author, first word of the title.

ONLINE sources from the library will have the MLA citation somewhere on the page. You may copy and paste it into your bibliography.   However if you use a regular website you will need to create your own citation.  Here is the format:

Citing a Website in MLA  Format:

Author Last Name, Author First Name.  “Title of article or web page in quotes.”  Website name/domain.org.  Website Publisher spelled out, Year Site last updated hint: look for copyright symbol.  Web. Day Month Year you lasted used the site.

Example:    Smith, Jennifer.  “The Salem Witch Trials Revisited.” SalemHistory.org.  The Salem Historic Society of Massachusetts, 2014.  Web.  25 Nov. 2016. 

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