Day 1

NoodleTools & Graduation Project 2014

Logging In

Creating Projects

Sharing the DropBox

Making an Outline

Start with Library Page

Sign In or Register

After you register or login, the next screen will be “My Projects”

Review:

Did you choose the correct style and level?

Review: Did you name your project Graduation Project?

Manage your project from the Dashboard

SHARE the project with your teacher

Start typing 14MooreChoose your period

Type your name

Check the box Share Project

Input YOUR gmail information

ACCEPT

Successfully linked projects will have all three

checkmarks

Enter your research question and your thesis statement

Click HERE to access the outline

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Day 2 Monday

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PA Career Zone

Creating Citations

Adding Notecards

From the LIBRARY HOMEPAGE

Choose the MOST RELEVANT result

Gather all of your information

THERE IS NO AUTHOR FOR PA CAREER ZONE!

Career Zone Pennsylvania is the name of the website

PA Department of Educationis the publisher

Copy the unique URL for your specific job’s page

Click HERE to create a citation

Make your citation BEFORE your note card!!

Click HERE to create a citation

Make your citation BEFORE your note card!!

To create a citation choose the

best matchfrom the drop-

down menu

Copy-and-paste to avoid spelling errors

Able to change format.

Correct errors on the fly!

NOODLETOOLS WILL SAVE AUTOMATICALLY, BUT

MAKE SURE THE BOX IS CHECKED AT THE END OF EACH CITATION AND HIT

SUBMIT!

EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE IN PROCESS (DRAFT) WILL LOOK LIKE.

It’s easy to add more sources !

Make your notecards AFTER

you have created citations

See how to make your in-text reference for

MLA and APA

Copy and paste here to captureauthor’s words.

Notecard is linked to source.

Paraphrase here.

YOU CAN HAVE SHORT OR LONG DIRECT QUOTATIONS.

Then start to mark it up

USE COLORS TO HIGHLIGHT SENTENCES YOU MAY WANT TO

PARAPHRASE.

Explain it to yourself

Help

Paraphrasing is putting the ideas of an author into your own words.

FOR YOUR PROJECT THE “TITLE” WILL BE THE NAME OF YOUR BODY PARAGRAPH.

If your note isn’t linked to a source, find it in this list of all your sources

Source

Notes

Feedback from teacher

Format and export your bibliography to a word

processor (or Google docs)

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Searching Databases using

INFOTRAC

From the LIBRARY HOMEPAGE

Checkmark BOTH boxes

KEYWORD PHRASE ONLY

Click a subject that is related to your research

question

This can be done many times in order to LIMIT the

results list

Scroll to the bottom

Select DATABASE

Choose MAGAZINE

Only do this for APPROVED RESOURCES

Paste citation hereCHECK for spelling errors

Remove unnecessary formatting

DONE!

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Using Britannica Online

From the LIBRARY HOMEPAGE

Different types of sources

Use the descriptions to find the BEST, most RELEVANT articles

CITE!

Leave out the brackets!

Fix the title!Remove the boldface

Capitalize the important words

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Outlining

Creating Piles

Organize notes flexibly

What notes have similar titles or topics? • Pile them together• Add them to your outline

What if I make new combinations of notes? • What other ways can I order my outline?• Do new grouping suggest new ways to

analyze what I know? New ideas? New questions?

Click HERE to access the outline

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Your new notecards are waiting on the tabletop

Add colors and cues to remind yourself what needs to be done and what’s important.

Create a new pile from your highlighted notecards

Piles are possible subtopics for an outline

Build your outline on-the-fly…

Look for “options”

…or create it before you take notes.

Drag notes and piles into your outline

Watch your outline grow as you add notecards

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Plagiarism

How to tell if you are plagiarizing?

Are my own word being used?

Tips for effective paraphrasing:

1. Statement must be in your own words.

2. If you use any phrases that are in the original quote, place them in quotation marks.

3. Add a citation – even if a paraphrase is in your own words, it is still someone else’s idea.

4. Having difficulty paraphrasing? Make a short list of the quote’s main idea and words that relate to it. Incorporate the concepts and words in your paraphrase.