Newest questions:
How do I use easybib.com ?
1. Click on "Click here to select a source."
2. Select from the menu the type of source. Most often you are probably using a web site.
3. Enter web address and click on Autocite.
4. Click on "Create Citation."
5. Copy and paste your entry or do your whole works cited list and then copy and paste it.
Can I use the URL (web address) in my informal citation?
Answer: No. Do not use the URL there. You may, however, use the name of the web site, or in some cases, part of the name of the web site. You may use name of the author or sponsor of the web site.
For instance:
Instead of writing this -- (NOT THIS)
According to http://www.asdk12.ort/schools/romig/pages/museum/Gold%20Group/Gold.htm, the Klondike Stampede, though it was entirely in Canada, dramatically helped Alaska's economy. Due to the Klondike, Alaska earned $103,000,000.00 in gold. When gold was found in the Klondike, some 80,000 adventurers ventured north to Dawson City. 30,000 of them actually arrived there. The other 20,000 were scattered all over, from The Bering Sea to MacKenize River in Canada.
You could write: (BUT THIS)
According to the Anchorage School District web site, the Klondike Stampede, though it was entirely in Canada, dramatically helped Alaska's economy. Due to the Klondike, Alaska earned $103,000,000.00 in gold. When gold was found in the Klondike, some 80,000 adventurers ventured north to Dawson City. 30,000 of them actually arrived there. The other 20,000 were scattered all over, from The Bering Sea to MacKenize River in Canada.
(Thanks, Addison.)
1. Do I have to put my name on it?
For whatever sort of project you do, don't forget your name, period, and date!
2. How many sources do I need to use?
You will use at least 3 or 4 different sources for your facts. If you use Wikipedia, you may not count that among the required 3 sources. You'll need another source to verify what you found there.
3. May I use my historical fiction novel as a source? Can I use other books as sources?
You may not use your historical fiction novel, only nonfiction sources. You may use nonfiction books. Use citationmachine.net or easybib.com to create your works cited entry for a book.
4. What do I need for a PowerPoint?
You're aiming for 15 facts (found in at least 3 or 4 different sources), a title slide, and a works cited list. Each fact will be introduced with an informal citation such as "according to Captain Jack Sparrow : ) , . . . " or "The Caribbean Museum of Piracy states that. . . ." Then you will have your works cited list at the end. I should be able to look at the informal citation and be able to tell which works cited entry goes with it.
You will also use illustrations, and if you find them online, include the URL for each either on the same page with the illustration or on a slide or two at the end. (You can create a citation on easybib.com for photos, etc., or you can just use the URL.)
Don't forget to either put your facts in quotes if you are quoting directly, or put them into your own words to avoid plagiarism. Most should be in your own words.
5. What do I need for a Blog?
See the question about PowerPoints, only substitute posts for slides.
6. What do I need for a Poster? (no text in pencil!)
You need a title (with your name, period, date), your fifteen facts on a list or attached separately to the poster (each introduced -- in the same sentence -- with an informal citation such as "According to an article in the World Book Encyclopedia about sharecropping, . . .," or "George James, an expert on the Civil War, stated that. . . "
You also need attractive illustrations that help the reader understand your subject. Tell where you found the illustrations -- with them or with the Works Cited list. (You need at least 5 illustrations.)
Your Works Cited list may be attached to the back of your poster. I should be able to look at the informal citation and be able to tell which works cited entry goes with it.
Your product must be neat and attractive.
7. What do I need for a Scrapbook?
You need a page with the title, with your name, period, date.
Each page will have one or more facts with an illustration or illustrations.
You should have at least 5 pages (to 15 pages) of facts with illustration.
Your Works Cited list will be a page at the end, along with where you got your illustrations unless you already showed that with illustration. I should be able to look at the informal citation and be able to tell which works cited entry goes with it.
No text in pencil.
Your product must be neat and attractive. No lined paper for illustrations.
8. What is a Works Cited List?
It is a list of the sources you actually used in your project.
The easiest way to create the entries is to go to citationmachine.net or easybib.com
Use MLA format. Pick the type of source you are using -- text or online.
On easybib, just pick the type of source from the list.
Do the best you can to get the information about your source into the citation.
Submit and then copy to a Word document the entry created by citationmachine or easybib.
You will have three or four or more entries on your Works Cited List.
Saying you found something on Google or Yahoo or Wikipedia is not enough. That is like saying you found a book in the library without telling which book it is or who it's by or where in the library you found it.
You may use several facts from each source. For each fact that you use, you should link it to a works cited entry by using an informal citation.
Example:
According to Ms. Dorsey on our class blog, you should link each fact you use on your project to an entry in your works cited list.
Works Cited entry :
Dorsey, Claudia E. Web log comment. Caveman English. Claudia E. Dorsey, 23 Nov. 2009. Web. 23 Nov. 2009.
The red part above is the "informal citation."
Here's another example for a Works Cited Entry:
For the facts you need to cite (like with easybib.com or citationmachine.net) the sources.
Here is a works cited entry from easybib for a fact from one student's project. I just put in the URL she provided (after I'd selected Click Here to Select a Source, Web Site), clicked on AutoCite, then on Create Citation -- lower on the page. Then I could copy that citation, or wait until I had them all and copy the whole works cited/bibliography from easy bib.
This is the works cited entry:
"Roman Social Class and Public Display." VROMA :: Home. Web. 09 Dec. 2009.
9. Where do I put my works cited list?
If you are doing a PowerPoint, put it on the last slide or two.
If you are doing a poster, tape it on the back of the poster.
If you are doing a blog, put it on one of your posts.
If you are doing a scrapbook, it should be the last page in the scrapbook.
If you are doing a video or other recording, print it and attach it to your printed script.
Title your works cited list "Works Cited."
10. What do you mean by an "informal citation"?
You use an informal citation when you tell right in the same sentence with the fact where you got that fact. See the example above, and this example:
I learned on a web site for the Buxton Historic Museum that the community of Elgin (Buxton) was founded in 1849, and that there are still descendants of those original settlers living there now.
Here's the works cited entry to go with it:
Gardner, Lori. "BUXTON WEB EXHIBITS." BUXTON HISTORIC MUSEUM. Buxton National Historic Site and Museum, Nov. 2009. Web. 23 Nov. 2009.
11. How many slides do I need to have if I choose to do a PowerPoint?
You will have about 10 to 17.
-- One for the title page.
-- 8 to 15 for your facts -- Each fact will use an informal citation. You'll have an illustration on each slide. The illustration will illustrate with the fact.
-- One or more for your Works Cited List.
-- If you don't put the URLs where you found your illustrations beside or below them, put the URLs for illustrations together on another slide at the end. For each URL, give the page of the slide that illustration is on.
12. What is the project about?
