Transcript Skyline Library

SKYLINE LIBRARY
Librarian: Ms. Bacon
Librarian’s Assistant: Ms. Eide
Hours:
Monday Tuesday Thursday: 7:00 - 3:30
Wednesday: 9:00 - 3:45
Friday: 7:00 - 3:00
RESEARCH
Report Writing
Research
Summary
Analyze a
perspective
or argue a point
 with specific
details
Explanation
of a situation,
event, book, etc.
present your own
thinking (thesis)
backed by others'
ideas, research,
and findings
So…
…if writing about the Vietnam War,
you’d read newspaper articles and
books and interview veterans to
develop and/or confirm a viewpoint
and support it with evidence
IN RESEARCH, CITING SOURCES IS A MUST:
MLA Formatting and Style
DEFINITIONS
Citation : make reference to
and give credit to a source for
use of facts and ideas
DEFINITIONS…
In-Text Citation : the brief note so the
reader:
1) knows the fact/idea came from
another source
2) can look at your Works Cited page and
find the exact location of the idea/fact
looks like…
DEFINITIONS…
Works Cited :
the last page of a research paper,
includes full citation information for
all sources cited
in your paper
and no other
sources
looks like…
HOW TO CITE
Suggestions:
Purdue University – OWL site
Books and subscription databases
are the most reliable and the
easiest to cite.
Other online sources can be as
reliable, but more work is needed
to validate the source’s authority
ASSIGNMENT ONE (4 THINGS)
1) Go to the Skyline Library website via the
Skyline webpage. And click on Library
Catalog.
2) Choose a non-fiction book in the catalog and
write down the title and call number of the
book.
3) Go to the “Databases” tab on the library
page and look at the different databases
and write down the name of one database.
4) Create an EasyBib account.
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Directions here.
this is a site that will help you collect, cite, and
format your citations
you are just creating an account, you don’t need to
do anything else except remember your login
information
Due: at the beginning of class on
Tuesday, September 16