On this page:-
paper, poster, PowerPoint presentation, movie ...
a useful guide to doing research may be found here.
| Writing a paper: Most teachers will expect you to use MLA style |
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Here's a video to help you with formatting your paper |
| You need a works cited page for your paper |
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Here's a video to help you with formatting your works cited page |
A complete guide for formatting a paper and a works cited page
MLA style is here.
A complete guide for formatting a paper and a works cited page
APA style is here.
The standard writing rubric for CHS may be found
here
| Use the catalog to identify books that may be useful |
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Using the catalog |
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A video about how the library is arrranged |
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A very brief introduction to electronic resources |
| Creating or just finding citations |
Cite the sources you used to find your information
for all sorts of projects, not only papers.
There is a Citations guide to help you correctly
cite the types of sources most commonly used in CHS Library.
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Citation generator or copy and paste.This is so easy, there is no excuse for not citing your sources |
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This video from Common Craft explains what plagiarism is and how to avoid plagiarizing |
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Here's a video explaining the Dewey Decimal system |
| Sources of copyright free music and pictures for your project |
If you are going to publish your work, it is easier to use copyright free images and music than to get permission to use stuff.
Here are some useful sources
Updated March, 2012: TD