Transcript Using NoodleTools - Les Bois Junior High

Using NoodleTools
A complete citation, notecard, and
outlining tool
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About this Tutorial
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This tutorial will walk you through the steps
of creating a project with NoodleTools.
– To move on in the program, click the NEXT
button. If you need to go back, use the
navigation in the bottom left corner to select a
slide.
– After each section, you will have the option to
move ahead or return to the main menu.
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Choose a Topic Below
Starting a Project
Managing Sources
Creating Notecards
From Notecards to Outline
Drafting Your Paper
Starting a Project
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Step One: Logging In
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Access
NoodleTools from
the library’s
Source Citation
page.
Enter your login
information.
Personal ID =
10-digit student
number
Password =
blazer
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Create a New Project
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Citation Style and Title
Choose a citation style and give your paper
a name.
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The Dashboard
Click to see the different parts of the dashboard.
Access the different parts
of your project—the
bibliography, notecards,
outline, and paper—here.
When you share your
project with others, they
can leave comments,
which will appear here.
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The Dashboard shows
general information about
your project and its
various components.
This is where you will add
your research question
and thesis statement.
You can create a list of
tasks and due dates for
yourself by clicking here.
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Managing Sources
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Creating a New Citation
When you begin looking at a research source,
create a citation for it so you can keep track of
where different information in your paper
comes from.
Begin by selecting the type of
resource from the pull-down
menu, then answer any
additional questions about your
source. This will help
NoodleTools choose the right
type of citation.
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Filling in the Citation
The pattern for your citation is
color-coded so you can see
what it will look like.
Enter the information about
your research source into the
spaces provided.
You may not have information
for every field, but you should
have entries in most fields.
When you are done, click
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then
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Adding Additional
Information
You can choose to add additional information
about the research source in the “Annotation”
field.
This is required for an annotated bibliography,
and can help you to keep track of the format
and general characteristics of each source in
case you want to refer to them later.
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Creating Notecards
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What are notecards?
In the olden days of research, you
kept track of your sources and the
facts you found in each one on
handwritten notecards.
These could then be spread out on a
tabletop and sorted into piles to
represent the different parts of a
paper, as well as to remind the
researcher which source each idea
came from.
Citation managers take care of all of
these things for you, eliminating the
need for handwritten cards.
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Open a new Notecard
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When you’re ready to take some notes from
a research source, click “new” under
Notecards next to that source.
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New Notecard
Give your notecard a name that
will help you remember what
information is there.
Adding a URL will create a link
back to the original source from
your notecard.
You can add tags to help you later
when you are sorting cards. After
you add tags to a card, you can
choose from the dropdown menu
to give other notecards the same
tag.
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Direct Quotations
Pull direct quotations from your
source and paste to the dialog
box. You can also add pictures
from electronic resources.
If formatting is a problem, you
have a text-only option for
pasting.
The text box has many of the
same features as a word
processor—find and replace,
different font styles, various text
alignments, special characters,
and highlighting text.
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Paraphrase
Take another look at the
section you just copied to
your notecard, and put it
into your own words. Try
to give as complete a
rundown as possible.
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Further Questions
The last text box asks you
to think about the
information you’ve found.
– What does it mean for
your research?
– Why is it important?
– Does it reveal any other
ideas that need to be
researched?
– How does this connect to
other information you’ve
already found?
You can highlight, underline,
or italicize points you know
you want to come back to.
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Viewing Notecards from
the Citation List
From the source list, click “show” to view summaries
of all notes for that source. Click “hide” to remove
these from view.
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From Notecards to
Outline
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The Tabletop
You can sort your cards
in this area, putting
them
This box
holds any new
in
groups.
Click to see the different parts of the tabletop.
notecards you haven’t
yet put onto the table.
If you have more
notecards than can be
seen at one time, this
box shows you which
area of the tabletop you
are looking at.
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If two notecards provide
information about the
same concept, you can
put them together in a
When you’ve sorted your
pile.
notecards, use this
window to set up your
outline.
This is the tabletop, where you can see the different threads
of your research all at the same time.
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Organizing Notecards
The simplest way to sort your
notecards is by dragging them
around the tabletop. Hold the
cursor over a notecard to see its
full title and a short summary.
Double-click to edit the
notecard.
You can put similar cards
together, or even drag a card on
top of another one to create a
pile. Holding the cursor over a
stack will remind you which
cards are in that pile.
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Tagging Notecards
It’s easy to add visual
cues to your notecards,
too.
CTRL-click to select a
notecard, then pull down
the Tags menu. From
there, you can colorcode, change tags, or
add visual cues to help
you keep track of your
information. You can
add multiple colors or
visual cues to each
notecard.
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Creating the outline
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Creating an outline will help
you to organize the parts of
your paper into a clear and
logical order.
Create your outline using the
outline toolbar. With the
buttons, you can add a
heading, make a heading
into a subheading, move
headings up and down,
delete a heading, or print the
entire outline.
Double-click to change the
names of the different
sections.
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Adding Support
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Drag notecards over to the appropriate sections of the
outline. Use the up/down button to change the order of
the notecards.
Notecards that have been added will show a check mark in
the upper corner.
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Printing the Outline
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When your outline is finished, you have several
options for publishing. You can print the outline
with or without the information from your
notecards, or convert the outline to a file type that
you can edit with a word processor.
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Drafting Your Paper
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Exporting the Outline
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In the Outline
window, choose the
Print button.
Select the Convert to
RTF option. Rather
than sending a
document to the
printer, this option will
convert your outline
to a format that can
be read by a word
processor.
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Export Options
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You can include or exclude
many of the elements of
your notecards. You will
probably want to include at
least the page numbers,
quotations, paraphrases,
and your own ideas. These
will help you write your
paragraphs and cite the
sources correctly without
having to refer back to your
notecards while you are
writing.
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Open Your Outline
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You will have the option to either save
your file or open it immediately.
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Now What?
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When you open your
outline, it will look like this.
You have several options
from this point:
– Open a new document for
your draft and click back
and forth as you write.
– Begin typing paragraphs
or parts of paragraphs
directly into the outline.
– Reformat the document
into a Word outline and
type paragraphs right into
it.
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Typing
Straight Into
the Outline
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If you choose to draft
your paragraphs
directly into the outline,
you can make it easier
to tell the draft from
the outline by
– Eliminating extra line
spacings
– Color-coding
– Highlighting
– Using different fonts
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Google Docs
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One of the best places to put your draft is on
Google Docs. You will need a Google account to do
this.
The advantages to using Google Docs for storing
your files are:
– Files are accessible from any web-connected computer.
– You only have one version of the file floating around—no
more figuring out which is the one you were working on
last time.
– A full-featured, built-in word processor means you can edit
your file on a computer that doesn’t have Word, or open
your file no matter what program or version you have.
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You’re Done!
Press
to exit the tutorial.