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Conard Library Research Guide & Worksheets

Research guides offer you selected resources in a variety of media in a general topic area. 
They provide a head start as you begin your research project.  Worksheets make it easier to keep track of sources or determine the credibility of websites.

Citation Help 

 These interactive websites create citations for your bibliography by putting information
that you provide about your sources into the proper format.

• EasyBib
  A free advanced bibliography composer.

• Citation Machine
  An interactive Web tool designed to help teachers model and students learn the correct way to cite their sources.(MLA, APA, Chicago)

• NoodleBib
  WHPS maintains a subscription to this high quality, fee-based system for generating, editing
  and publishing MLA and APA-style source lists. Contact a library media specialist (521-1350, ext. 5077) for username and password for use outside of school.

• SourceAid
  Free writing and resource tool to help punctuate, format, and produce bibliographies in all four standard styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, & CSE). Registration (free) is required.
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These websites provide additional information on writing, citing,
and constructing a bibliography.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab
  Help with all aspects of writing: thesis statements, research, grammar  and mechanics, citation.

• APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago and AMA Citation Styles
  Select the link for any of these formats to view sample citations.

• Citing Images and Pictures - Babson College
  Images or pictures that you decide to use in a presentation or research papers must be cited.
  This site offers guidelines and an example.

• Springfield Township Library Bibliographic Style Guide
  Gateway to many helpful citation guides and interactive resources.

• Writer's Handbook
  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center has MLA and APA styles of 
  documentation in addition to quoting, paraphrasing and acknowledgment of sources guidance.

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A paper handout showing MLA Citation style for most commonly cited sources
is available in the library.  Ask at the circulation desk.

• Conard Citing Online Sources Guide
  Instruction and examples to help identify and record all the information required to properly cite your online sources.

• Conard Citing Online Sources Organizer
  Worksheet that can be used with the Guide. Print out as many copies as you need.

Plagiarism and How to Avoid It - A Guide for Conard Students

                                                      © Hilary B.Price. Used with special permision of "King Features Syndicate"

• Quick quiz:  When to Cite Sources - True or False?
  

• Plagiarism is...

• Copying a paper from the web.

• Using a friend’s paper.

• Using a paper that was written for another class.

• Copying a writer word for word without quotation marks.

• Paraphrasing inadequately – changing just a few words
   while keeping grammar and other aspects of the text the same.

• Using another person’s ideas or facts without attribution.

• It's wrong because... 

• It's cheating.  It's also lying, and it's usually stealing.

• It insults your teacher, your fellow students and your school. 

• It deprives the true authors of credit for their work. 

• It deprives you of a part of your education. 
  (Doing your own work and thinking for yourself is how you learn.) 

• It prevents your readers or audience from discovering where to go for more information on the topic.

• Some examples: Is it plagiarism?  
  

• Consequences: Student Handbook Academic Honor Code
  

• Now try this quiz:  To Cite or Not to Cite?

Now that you know how important it is to cite your sources, you probably got all the answers right.  But if you want to check the answers to both of the quizzes on this page, see a member of the Conard Library staff.