Noodle – Making a Cheat Sheet (to help cite sources within your paper)
updated 10/2009
Why
When you write a research paper and use information from a source other than your own brain – your own personal knowledge – you must give credit to each source.
When you’re writing a paragraph, each time your change sources you must cite the source you’re using before you begin using another source.
How – using Noodle
Create and save a Works Cited page. When you save it, name it something like workscited_cheatsheet.
Leave your Works Cited page open and open another Internet Explorer window – not another tab, another whole Internet window! Log into your Noodle account and open your research paper folder.
The list of your sources on the Noodle “bibliography” page is in the same alphabetical order as your Works Cited page in Word. So, the first entry on the Noodle page is also the first entry on the Works Cited page; the second entry on the Noodle page is also the second entry on the Works Cited page, and so on.
So what you need to do is tile your windows.
Right click on a blank area of your bottom task bar. Choose tile vertically. If it doesn’t work, try opening the Works Cited page (the Word document), leave it there and then click on Noodle, leave it there and click on the Works Cited page again. Now try to tile your windows.
To actually make the cheat sheet:
On Noodle look at your first entry. At the end of the line on the far right-hand side, you have the edit and parenthetical reference buttons (and a few more).
Click parenthetical reference. A box comes up with what you use to cite that source and it appears in parentheses. “( _ )” – these things!
Highlight what appears in parenthesis INCLUDING the parenthese AND the period at the end.
Now look at your Works Cited page, the Word document. PASTE your citation on the blank line underneath the first entry.
I put a blank line after my citation, but that’s just me. I like my entries separated a bit.
Repeat that process for all your sources.
When you finish, go to Edit, select all. Change the font to Times New Roman 12 and take off the italics. (Those citations you copied and pasted won’t be in the right font.)
