1. Research is Fun!

2. How Do I Start?
Choose a topic
Adjust the size of your topic

3. Outline Your paper should have a focus
Choose three main points to research
Organize by time, importance, or geography
You need an introduction and conclusion

4. How to Research You may need to learn a little first
Choose three main points (usually)
Organize by: Time, importance, geography
Research only your three points
Adjust if necessary!

5. Where Do I Research? Use books in the media center (card catalog)
Use search engines (Ex. apples)
Use Google Scholar
Use a database (Galileo)
Wikipedia????

6. Is My Source Reliable? Where did I find it? Who wrote it?
Who published it?
Are there conflicting sources?

7. Is My Source Reliable? Is the website professional?
Can I verify the information?
Are there references?

8. Plagiarism Copying and pasting? Using another's paper as your own?
Using another's words as your own?
Using another's ideas as your own?

9. Avoid Plagiarism Use citations to give credit to sources
Use information from many sources
Use quotation marks for direct quotes
Paraphrase and reword--but still use citations!!

10. What do I have to cite? All direct quotations All paraphrases
All original ideas
All opinions
All summaries of another person's ideas

11. What do I not have to cite?
Common knowledge
Easy to locate facts
Ideas or opinions of your own

12. Plagiarism is an expellable offense.
Plagiarism is Serious!
Plagiarism is a crime.
Plagiarism is an expellable offense.
Plagiarism is lazy.
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13. APA Style APA requires a separate title page.
APA requires a heading on each page.
APA uses section headers for longer papers.
APA requires dates in text citations.
APA has different capitalization rules
APA has a Reference page.
APA is used for science, social sciences,
and education.

14. APA Set Up Times New Roman Size 12 font Title page required
Running head on title page
Include heading on all pages
Page numbers in upper right corner
All text should be Times New Roman, size 12.
Remind students to check margins.
Remind students that headers and footers should be set up when they begin their papers.

15. Sample APA Title Page Running head in all caps
Title, name, and course centered on page
Page number in upper right corner

16. Sample APA Page Running head at the top of page
Page number in upper right corner
Headers separating sections

17. APA Headers Yes Centered? Left Aligned? Bold? Italics? Indented?
First Degree
Second Degree
Third Degree
Fourth Degree
Centered?
Yes
Left Aligned?
Bold?
Italics?
Indented?
Remind students about first and second degree headers.
Explain that there should be an introduction without a header.

18. APA In-Text Citations Include author's last name, comma, and year
Example-- (Smith, 2014)
Use shortened title if no author
Example-- ("History of England," 2014)
Citation should direct reader to an entry on the reference page
Ask for questions about citations.
Ask if anyone has two sources with the same author.

20. APA Reference Page Page should be titled References
Check the guide for specific entry instructions
Different punctuation rules apply here
First line is left aligned, other lines are indented
Include heading (title and page number)
Alphabetize entries!!!

21. Example Reference Page
Follow this example.
Use guide for specific instructions.
Tell students to use the media center home page for help with citations on the media center home page.
Make sure that all students can access page.

22. MLA Style MLA does not have a separate title page.
MLA requires last name and page number right aligned at the top of each page.
MLA requires author’s last name and page number in citations.
MLA has a Works Cited page.
MLA is used in the Humanities field.

23. MLA Set Up Times New Roman Size 12 font No separate title page
Last name and page number on each page

24. Sample MLA First Page

25. MLA In-Text Citations Include author’s last name and page number
Example—(Smith 387)
Use shortened title if no author
Example—(“History of England” 387)
Should refer the reader to an entry on the Works Cited list

27. MLA Works Cited Page Page should be titled Works Cited
Check the guide for specific instructions
First line is left aligned, other lines are indented
Include name and page number in right corner
Alphabetize entries!!!

28. Example Works Cited page
Follow this example.
Use guide for specific instructions.

29. APA versus MLA--Differences
Title page
Bibliography page
Headers on each page
Headings to separate sections
In-text citations
Bibliographic entries

30. APA versus MLA--Similarities
Times New Roman 12
Double spaced
Requirement to cite sources of information (parenthetical citations)
Page numbers
Research method

31. Is Research Fun?

32. Come to the Media Center if you need help!
Good luck!
Come to the Media Center if you need help!