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Using the Internet to Research

Using the Internet to Research. Finding good sources and citing them. Words to Know. Source: a book, website, newspaper, or article that tells you the facts you want to know. Citation/citing: listing the person who wrote the source you got your facts from.

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Using the Internet to Research

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  1. Using the Internet to Research Finding good sources and citing them

  2. Words to Know • Source: a book, website, newspaper, or article that tells you the facts you want to know. • Citation/citing: listing the person who wrote the source you got your facts from. • Search term: the words you type to find things on the internet.

  3. What is Plagiarism? • Definition: “to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas.” – merriam-webster.com

  4. How to Cite • Author names (Last name, First name) • Title • Publisher (No publisher  use n.p.) • When it was published (No date  n.d.) • Type (book, web)

  5. Citing Books Author. Title of book. City of Publication. Publisher. Year. Print. Example: White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1952. Print.

  6. More Than One Author Example: Atwater, Richard, and Florence Atwater. Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 1938. Print. Author 1 and Other Authors. Title of book. City of Publication. Publisher. Year. Print.

  7. Citing Entire Website Editor, author (if available). Name of site. Version number. Name of institution/organization. Date it was written/published. Web. Date you visited. Example: Purdue Owl Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 4 Mar. 2014.

  8. Citing Images Artist Name. Name of the art. Year created. Institution, city where the art lives. Name of website. Web. Date you visited the website. Van Gogh, Vincent. Starry Night. 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. MoMA. Web. 4 Mar. 2014

  9. Search Terms • Figure out what your topic is • Figure out what you want to know • Put it into simpler words • If you don’t find what you want, put it in other words that mean the same thing

  10. Useful Tips • Turn on google safe search • If you can, use websites ending with .gov or .edu • Don’t use Wikipediaor About.com • Beware sponsored links on Google! • Using quotation marks will give you links using those exact words

  11. Activity • Find a fun fact about your county! It can be about the name, something interesting that happened there, or whatever else you think is interesting about it!

  12. Useful Websites • www.usclimatedata.com • www.quickfacts.census.gov • www.labor.ny.gov/stats/nys/statewide-population-data.shtm • www.nysegov.com/map-ny.cfm • https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

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