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Crash Course
Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3
Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking an help...
Crash Course
Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general...
Curated Video
Mastering Citations: A Guide to Efficiently Citing Sources in Google Docs
This instructional video provides a detailed guide on how to effectively use Google Docs to create and add citations automatically using the Citations tool and the Explorer tool. The video addresses the challenges of referencing and...
Curated Video
Supporting an Analysis
This video is about how to support an analysis with quotes, facts, and examples as evidence.
Curated Video
Authentic Writing
“Authentic Writing” discusses plagiarism and explains how to use direct quotations and indirect citations in MLA format.
Curated Video
Bibliography
Bibliography teaches how to create a bibliography page that includes citations for sources used to research an assigned topic using correct format, capitalization, and punctuation.
Curated Video
Direct and Indirect Quotes
A video that reviews the act of quoting information from outside sources of authority. Citations can be placed within an essay through direct quotations or through paraphrases.Knowing how to cite information correctly helps writers to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economists Incentivize Conformity Over Quality
Economists tend to incentivize conformity over quality, but could pressure from outside groups change that?
INET sits down with Carlo D’Ippoliti, Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, to talk about...
INET sits down with Carlo D’Ippoliti, Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, to talk about...
Catalyst University
Easy Citations (Part 3): From Wikipedia to Profound, Full Citation
NOTE: Requires Mendeley Desktop, a free download. This quick tutorial from Catalyst University shows you how to use Mendeley Desktop (a citation manager) to quickly generate full, complete citations for lab reports very efficiently.
Catalyst University
Easy Citations (Part 1): Downloading and Using Mendeley
This quick tutorial from Catalyst University shows you how to download Mendeley, a fantastic citation manager, and a simple example how to use it to generate full citations for lab reports very quickly.
Bill Carmody
The Process of Writing a Long Report
This video provides a step-by-step guide on the process of writing a long report. It covers topics such as choosing a relevant topic, conducting research, writing a thesis statement, preparing an outline, drafting, revising and editing,...
Curated Video
Collecting and Citing Evidence for Your Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of gathering proper evidence to support an argumentative essay. They emphasize the need to avoid repetition and provide a step-by-step guide on how to collect supporting evidence, such...
GCFGlobal.org
Avoiding Plagiarism
How can learners avoid plagiarism in their academic work? Pupils learn some helpful strategies with the first of four videos from the Use Information Correctly series. Scholars discover the importance of citing sources and learn how to...
Vimeo
How to Paraphrase
It can be easy to plagiarize if you don't know how to paraphrase properly. Avoid the common pitfall with an informative video about paraphrasing, that includes strategies for rephrasing text as well as times when it's appropriate to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Avoiding Plagiarism
This tutorial focuses on plagiarism and how to avoid it. It defines plagiarism, explains intentional and unintentional plagiarism and gives examples of both, and discusses how to avoid it by using citations, quotation marks, paraphrase,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating Sources: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain how to evaluate electronic sources. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Evaluating Sources."
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Gather Evidence and Cite Sources
In this lesson, you will learn how to collect evidence that supports your thesis by using a variety of properly cited resources. [4:52]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating Sources: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain how to evaluate electronic sources. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Evaluating Sources."