Citations: Give credit to the author. You are borrowing the idea. Would you appreciate someone stealing your ideas? Readers like to see many citations. This gives them confidence that you are an expert.

You can “hang” your note cards on the outline “tree.” This helps you bring data (note cards) together with your argument (outline). Manage your outline with these buttons. You can “promote” (make more important) or “demote” (make less important) any of the “branches” on the tree. You may also move the branches up and down. Play with this control panel. It comes in handy as you learn from your research. Outline “tree.” Build your outline here. Outline in Noodle Tools Software Your outline is the heart of your project.

Outline in Noodle Tools Software Fill up each “bucket” completely. Don’t allow buckets to “leak.” Fill up each “bucket” completely. Don’t allow buckets to “leak.” Buckets may contain multiple note cards.

This is where you put borrowed ideas or direct quotations or “cut/paste” from the web. This is where you put your own ideas. This is where you write 90% of your paper. This is the bulk of the writing that you transfer through the RTF. Note Cards Write your paper here.

WARNING! BE CAREFUL! The “Paraphrase or Summary” box may be smaller than the “Direct Quotation” box, but you will normally type much more into the “Paraphrase and Summary” box. That is where you are building your research paper. WARNING! BE CAREFUL! The “Paraphrase or Summary” box may be smaller than the “Direct Quotation” box, but you will normally type much more into the “Paraphrase and Summary” box. That is where you are building your research paper. When you do the “RTF transfer,” you should see more of this “Paraphrase or Summary” text than of anything else. Fill it up. Even put your in text citations here so you have them when you do the RTF transfer.

This is your link from your note card to your source. You have confidence that you have good information in your research paper. (Choose good sources!)

Example of Web citation in the text of your paper: Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January, 1863 (“Emancipation Proclamation”). Article title in quotation marks. Give last name of author (if available). If author not available, then use article title. Never use domain name for the in-text citation.

"The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863." National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Web. 18 Dec pation_proclamation/transcript.html. pation_proclamation/transcript.html Works Cited entry (Web): 8. URL (Universal Resource Locator) (Information on Web has seven or eight parts.) 6. Medium of publication 7. Date you viewed the web site 5. Date of publication…if provided 4. Organization (Publisher of the site) 3.Domain name. (Name of the Web site) 2. Article title (in quotation marks) 2. Article title (in quotation marks) 1. Author’s last name…if provided

1. Author…if provided 2. Article title in quotation marks. 3.Domain name (Name of Web site) 4. Organization/Publisher 5. Date of publication 6. Medium 7. Date you viewed the web site 8. URL NOODLE TOOLS DATA ENTRY

Example of book citation in the text of your paper: Example: The earliest settlers in North America were influenced by natural resources and climate (Davidson and Stoff 14). Give last name of author(s) and the page number. Notice location of period after the citation. Put citation at end of the sentence.

Works Cited entry (book): (Information on book has SIX parts.) Davidson, James West, and Michael B. Stoff. America: History of Our Nation. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, Print. 1. Author 2. Title 3. Location of Publication 4. Company that published the book 5. Date book was published 6. Medium. Book is “print” medium.

1. Author 2. Title 3. Location of publication company 4. Company that published the book 5. Date book published 6. Medium. Book is “print” medium.

How do I move all my information from my outline to my actual research paper? Outline This is the first step of the “RTF transfer.”

Click this last one. “RTF” means “rich text format.” This is a simple format from which you can copy and paste easily into Google docs or Microsoft Word.

Click “submit.”

Copy and paste this text into your Google doc or Microsoft Word doc.

How do I put all my Works Cited (“Bibliography”) entries into my research paper?

Copy and paste.

In-text citations: Last name of author. Always the preferred in-text citation. Last name of author. Always the preferred in-text citation. “Title” NOTHING ELSE ALLOWED! OR Quotation Marks

Search Tips for Web: Good sites (make you look good) Use “+” for key words Use quotation marks for “key phrase” Name best type of site:.edu or.org or.gov Use Command F to find specific words inside a URL.

Use web sites that you trust. If you quote a work directly, put the quoted words in quotation marks and use proper punctuation. For example: In “The American Crisis,” Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls” (“American Crisis”).

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