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Plagiarism: Teaching About Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The best way to prevent plagiarism is to educate students on how to properly conduct research, cite, quote, and produce unique and original work. This site offers a series of video explaining plagiarism and ways to avoid it.
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making a Works Cited

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent tip sheet on how to write and develop a works cited and documentation list for a research paper. Includes in-depth information and examples.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Use Information Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, learn how to use information correctly to create quality content while protecting others' intellectual property.
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University of Wisconsin

Writing Center: Mla Documentation Guide: Creating an Mla Works Cited Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website gives examples to students on how to cite sources for articles, books, other print sources, and non-print sources. Very informative and easy to understand.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Cite Online Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After research in the Alabama Virtual Library, middle schoolers will write a paragraph essay and use an online citation utility to create bibliographic citations for an online encyclopedia, an online magazine, and a print resource....
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What kinds of evidence best support the points you make in a paper? Where can you find the evidence you need? This handout answers all these questions and more, including the difference between primary and secondary sources. You'll also...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Embedding Direct Quotations and Incorporating Indirect Quotations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the correct methods for using both direct and indirect quotations. We will explore how properly written direct quotations can fall into one of three categories: acceptable, better, or best, depending on how...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Evaluating Digital Information: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to evaluate digital sources. During the digital evaluation process, students are directed to analyze the following: authority, accuracy, objectivity, and currency. After the tutorial,...
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Umuc: Secrets of My Research Success

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 35-minute interactive tutorial models the research process via the story of Quentin, a UMUC student. It takes him through the various research process steps: understand how to locate background information on his topic by showing...
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University of Missouri

Interpreting Citations Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Want to make sense of the crazy-looking symbols and abbreviations in many periodical indexes? This clearly presented, quick tutorial can show you exactly what each strange symbol and abbreviation means.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Academic and Professional Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your students using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
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Williams College Library: Chicago Manual of Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists information on citing books, articles, interviews, electronic sources, etc. Unique because it tells how to cite interviews. Also has information pertaining to Williams College Students only.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apa Bibliography: General Format

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces how to format a bibliography in APA style.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: In Text Citations: Lesson 6

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces in-text citations and how to embed them in text. It is 6 of 7 in the series titled "In-Text Citations." W.9-10.8 Sources
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mla Bibliographies

For Students 9th - 10th
A fourteen-slide presentation followed by a series of four videos demonstrating how to create a bibliography for various sources using MLA formatting.
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Apa Style Central

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this comprehensive resource to learn about APA style. Students and teachers can use this site as a springboard for any questions they may have concerning APA Style.
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University of Maryland

University of Maryland Libraries: Preparing an Annotated Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This step-by-step guide explains the purpose and the procedure for creating annotated bibliographies. Sample entries are included.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Exploring the Alabama Virtual Library

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In preparation for independent research projects, students in small groups practice proper citation and familiarize themselves with Alabama Virtual Library databases using a graphic organizer.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Avoiding Plagiarism: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to avoid unintentional plagiarism. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Avoiding Plagiarism."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Avoiding Plagiarism: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to avoid unintentional plagiarism. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Avoiding Plagiarism."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: In Text Citations: Lesson 7

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces in-text citations and how to embed them in text. It is 7 of 7 in the series titled "In-Text Citations."
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New York Public Library: Early New York [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A teacher package explaining how to use the included primary resources with students. Questions and writing prompts accompany original images of early New York, Henry Hudson's experiences, colonial leaders, and people who lived in New...