MLA Citations are one of the most common formats used for citing your sources for research. See the video and links below for more details on creating citations by hand or using a citation tool.
Here is a great link from Purdue University that shows you how to format a citation in MLA and gives you a tool to automatically format the citation for you!
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University
MLA Formatting Poster - Purdue OWL - Purdue University
EasyBib - Free citation generator
Zotero Bib - Another free citation generator. *This tool is also in Clever.
Using the CRAAP acronym makes it easier to evaluate the credibility of a web resource.
Learn how the professionals search for articles, books, and other scholarly works through citation chasing and optimal keyword searching. This guide accompanies the Savvy Researcher workshop, "Advanced Search Strategies."
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Get more information about advanced search modifiers and how they work from the link below from the University of Illinois' Library LibGuide:
Google is a powerful search engine that offers quick and easy web searching. Use the tips and tricks provided in this guide to get the most out of your Google search. See the guide provided by Southern Adventist University below to maximize your abilities to get the best Google search results!
Definitely campy but it gets the point across. The place for nonfiction books in research. Purpose and use of the table of contents and index. How to take notes and writing the MLA citation.
call num·ber (kȯl nŭm'bər) noun
Combination of numbers and/or letters used in libraries to classify a book and indicate its location on the shelves. Two most popular Classification systems are Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress. Click on these links for videos explaining these systems.
External
· Cover
· Flaps
· Spine label
· Call number
Internal
· Text organizers
o Table of contents
o Index
o Glossary
o Guide Words
· Fonts and effects
o Bullets,
o Titles
o Headings
o Color Print
o Italics
o Captions
o Labels
o Boldface print
· Graphics
o Graphs
o Charts
o Timelines
o Maps
o Tables
o word bubbles
o Illustrations and photographs
The Guided Inquiry Design Framework was developed by Leslie Maniotes and Carol Kulthau at Rutgers University.
"Traditional research projects go against the students’ experience and can cause students to just cut and paste! This is not what we want our students to learn.
We want our students to think critically, make informed decisions and know how to use the information available to learn new information and ideas, in order to create new knowledge.
So, we set out to change how research is done in school by taking what we know about student learning and using it to help us work with our students. Guided Inquiry Design® reenvisions what teachers do in school to help students use the information available to them to think critically and learn new content." -from https://guidedinquirydesign.com/about-gid/.
Learn more at: https://guidedinquirydesign.com/
See the slideshow for information about the research process. Research can be a deceptively frustrating process when you can't find what you are looking for. These slides are targeted at simplifying the process and making it more systematic. Click the link below:
