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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.)

updated 10/2009

Alrighty, you are not supposed to have a header on the first page of your paper.  For this discussion, we are going to say that the first page of your paper IS the first page of your paper – not your title page, ok?

Hello, hello.  Hello?  Anyone out there?  Would someone please leave a comment?  Is anyone reading these words of wisdom?

(You did paste your Works Cited page in as the last page of your paper, didn’t you?  Well, you were supposed to.  It should be the last page of your paper and it should start at the very, very, very top of the page.  And the header should be on this page.)

Go ahead and print JUST page one of your paper BEFORE adding the header.  Go to file, print, and check the circle for pages and enter “1″ in the box.  Of course, if you are ON page one of your paper you can go to file, print, and check the circle for “current page” so that just your first page prints.

It has no header.

Now.  Add your header.

Print the remainder of your paper.  Go to file, print, and check the circle for pages and enter “2-X” —- X being the number of pages you have.  If you have six pages you’d put “2-6″ in that space.

That was not difficult was it?  Good luck, people.  It’s time like these that make me glad I’m old.

updated 10/2009

Log in, open your list and this puts you on the Bibliography page.  Click the print button (see illustration below.) It’s the print button of the LEFT side of your screen.

Mrs. Reeves students:  On the Italics/Underlining line … if it doesn’t have “italics” then you should click “underlining” … and change it to italics.

Click Export and Print (it’s in green font.)

You’ll get the white bar toward the top that’ll flash blue when you scroll over it.  Scroll on top of it and while it’s blue, click and choose “download file.”  If you don’t see this blue bar … don’t worry about it.  Keep going to the next step.

Choose SAVE.

Name your file and save it somewhere you’ll be able to find it later!

If you want to see your Works Cited page choose OPEN and look at it.  If you don’t wanna see it right now, just click close.  REMEMBER WHERE YOU SAVED IT so you can find it later!  We named these files using our name and “workscited” in class.  For example, harrypotter_workscited.   If your Works Cited page did not open and you need it NOW, just open Word, locate the file you just saved, and open it !!!

Inserting this into your paper LATER  … (that would mean after you’ve completed all your notecards and when you have your paper completed, all 3-5 pages of it) …

After you type your paper and you’re at the END of your paper:

• hit the enter key until you get to a new page in your paper
• open this Works Cited file
• copy the whole thing including the title
• now paste it onto that new page in your paper (the new page you hit enter a million times to get to)

This way it’ll get the header that you’re required to put in your paper. 

Confused?  Good.  jk (just kidding)

Several students have come by the last week or so and asked for help writing their Works Cited page.  I’ve been directing them to the library website where there’s a style guide link on the blue line.  I’ve just added “Mrs. Kemp’s examples” to that page and these should be very helpful.

 Here you’re going to find some examples that I recently wrote for juniors working on research papers.  I’ll add more examples to the page so check with “Mrs. Kemp’s examples” each time you have to site your sources…just because an example isn’t there this week doesn’t mean it’s never going to be there.  If you need a specific example, come by and ask or post me a comment.  I’ll be glad to add an example for the type source you’re using. Someone used several pamphlets from the vertical files today (what are vertical files, you say), so I’ll be adding an example for that.

But, there are several sites listed on that page that are very helpful.  The first one is a USM site.  Then there’s several links to Purdue University sites (thank you, Mrs. L. Smith) which are separated according to source type, like books, magazines, electronic sources, etc.  You just click on the link and you get examples only for that type source.  The USM site has all source types on one page and you just keep scrolling til you find what you need. 

For articles students get from MAGNOLIA or MELO, I have examples of the Works Cited entry under “Mrs. Kemp’s examples.”  You’re welcome

For Web sites I’ve listed two examples and I’ll post another for citing graphics in the near future.  We tend to forget that when we use a picture or clipart from the Internet WE NEED TO CITE THAT SOURCE.  It’s illegal to use information from others without properly citing your source which includes images AND music!  Do you have music on your FaceBook, or you MySpace?  Hmmm….did you have permission to upload it and post it?  Did you cite the source?  It may not be legal even if you site the source.  Be very, very careful.