Resources and Tutorials

• What’s an Annotate Bibliography?

• Choosing a Manageable Research Topic

• Quick Tips and Shortcuts for Database Searching
• How Do Databases Work? Keywords and Boolean Logic
• Databases 101: What is a Library Database

• Picking Your Topic IS Research

• OWL Purdue – APA: Purdue Online Writing Lab – APA Formatting and Style Guide (see also sample paper)
• OWL Purdue – MLA: Purdue Online Writing Lab – MLA Formatting and Style Guide (see also sample paper)
• OWL Purdue – Chicago Style: Purdue Online Writing Lab – Chicago Formatting and Style Guide
• APA Style Blog: This site provides many practical examples of how to cite web pages and various social media type web sources.
• Valencia College – Citations Guide: APA, MLA, Chicago Style guides with excellent examples!
• APAStyle.org: Frequently asked questions about APA style – citation help
• Style.MLA.org: The MLA Style Center
• Mendeley (by Elsevier) APA Citation Guide: A free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
• Mendeley (by Elsevier) MLA Citation Guide: A free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
• NoodleTools: How do I cite an online interview, video, or speech transcript? Visit the NoodleTools KnowledgeBase for answers to frequently asked questions about how to cite different types of sources in ALA, MLA, or Chicago/Turabian style.
• Bellevue College Citation Quick Guide Handout – APA
• Bellevue College Citation Quick Guide Handout – MLA
• WWCC Citation Quick Guide Handout – APA and MLA
• SSSA:
  • http://libraries.wsu.edu/quickguides/sssa
  • https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/style
  • https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/jpa/articles/12/3/frontmatter?highlight=&search-result=1
  • https://www.citethisforme.com/guides/asa-cssa-sssa

• BibMe: A free bibliography builder.
• Easy Bib: Build your bibliography for free (beware of advertising).
• NoodleTools Express: Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe — simply generate them in NoodleTools Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool. If you want a robust, fully-functioning research and citation manager you may subscribe for a reasonable fee.
• Son of Citation Machine: A free citation generator (beware of advertising).
• Zotero: A free, web-based, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
• SSSA:
  • https://www.citethisforme.com/asa-cssa-sssa
  • http://www.citationmachine.net/soil-science-society-of-america-journal/cite-a-book

• Evaluate Sources – RAPT it!

Do you have difficulty summarizing or paraphrasing? This is not an uncommon problem. Often we think we’ve summarized or paraphrased when actually we’ve changed only a few words or phrases from the original source. Did you know this is considered plagiarism even if the source is properly cited? Yikes!

The McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center has a tool that can help.  Here are links to the Summarizing and Paraphrasing section of their Plagiarism tutorial:

• Summarizing and Paraphrasing Overview
• Summaring and Paraphrasing Examples
• Summary and Paraphrase Quiz

Plagiarism

• 10 Types of Plagiarism (Infographic)
• duplichecker.com: This handy tool allows you to check yourself for plagiarism BEFORE you turn in your paper. Remember, if you don’t catch it, your instructor will!

• IRIS 4-2: Research can be confusing. Sometimes you need a little help, whether it be getting started or getting past certain hurdles. The information & Research Suite (IRIS) provides tutorial modules for each stage for the research process. IRIS is designed to help the researcher find, use, and convey information efficiently and effectively with proper citations.
• Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing: What’s the difference? if you don’t know, you may be plagiarizing without realizing it!
• Evaluating Sources Handout: Do you believe everything you hear or read? You shouldn’t! This document will help you determine the relevance, credibility, bias, currency, and accuracy of an information source.
• QUT CITE/WRITE: Citation helps and writing tutorials (including a tutorial on writing literature reviews).
• Purdue Online Writing Lab: Academic writing, creative writing, job search writing – you name it – OWL has tools to help you through every aspect of the writing process, including grammar and citation help.
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article (Graphic)