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What is a database? Collection of articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and books that you need a subscription to read. We pay for a subscription to databases so you have access to thousands of articles for free. Information comes from reliable sources that are intended for educational use.

Accessing the databases From school AND from home: Go to Click on Online Resources Click on EBSCOHost, Gale or Encyclopedia Britannica Type in your passwords

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Read the article HTML just has plain text, no pictures PDFs are scanned from the actual source Hover over the magnifying glass to read a summary of the article © EBSCOHost

Save to fileSave to folder The abstract is a summary of the article. Add notes © EBSCOHost

23 Citing your sources The databases will do your citations for you! Save or print documents, they will ask you to choose a style (MLA) and then your citations will be included at the top of your article. Just copy and paste it into your Works Cited! For help, go to and click on Class Projects, then “Getting citations using the online databases? 23

24 Choose MLA before saving

25 Copy and Paste the Citation

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Citing Your Sources

Why?? To acknowledge your sources To allow readers to locate and examine your sources

Types of Citations MLA APA Turabian Chicago Style

Works Cited “Bilingual Education Is a Human and Civil Right: A Rethinking Schools Editorial.” Rethinking Schools Online. Rethinking Schools. Web. 21 Jan 2010 Edwards, Brent Hayes. “The Literary Edge.” Newsweek 15 Dec 2009: EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan Gaines, Kevin. Duke Ellington. New York: Little Brown, Print. “Going to the Dogs.” Guitar Oct 2008: 8-9. EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan 2010.

Setting Up the Page Center the title “Works Cited” at the top of the page Double-space between the title and the first entry. Begin each entry flush with the left margin; if the entry is more than one line, indent the additional lines. (hanging indention) Double-space all lines ( both between and within entries)

Setting Up the Page All entries are in alphabetical order. Usually by the author’s last name. If there is no author, alphabetical by the first word in the title. Author entries and Title entries are listed together in one alphabetical order.

Citing Sources An easy way to cite is to use Citation Machine Go to Click on “Online Resources” then ”Landmark Citation Machine” Choose “MLA” then the type of material you are citing Just fill in the blanks

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Works Cited “Bilingual Education Is a Human and Civil Right: A Rethinking Schools Editorial.” Rethinking Schools Online. Rethinking Schools. Web. 21 Jan 2010 Edwards, Brent Hayes. “The Literary Edge.” Newsweek 15 Dec 2009: EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan Gaines, Kevin. Duke Ellington. New York: Little Brown, Print. “Going to the Dogs.” Guitar Oct 2008: 8-9. EBSCO. Web. 21 Jan 2010.

Citations Made Easy! From Click on Online Resources Click on Landmark Son of Citation Machine

Print resources you can hold in your hand Nonprint resources are anything from the Internet

Use the ISBN on the book’s barcode to look it up automatically

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Copy and paste this into your bibliography Copy and paste this to cite information in your paragraphs