- Bates College's Plagiarism Resource Site Read the materials, and take the self-test.
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- A Quick Guide to Plagiarism video clip (7:31)
Direct Link to Databases
Doing Research
- Writing a Research Paper: An MLA Guide (Our guide booklet).
- What Are Databases and Why You Need Them video clip (2:34)
- Evaluating Internet Sources Undergraduate Library, the University of Illinois
- Time Magazine online. (Ms. Bishop's log-in: cbishop@grsd.org , password: gateway235)
- How to Make a Source Card for a Book: video clip (3:42)
- How to Make a Source Card for an Internet Source: video clip (3:55)
- Citing Websites with Hard to Find Author or Date Info: video clip (1:44)
- How to Make Note Cards video clip (4:33)
- How to Write a Note Card review video clip (2:24)
- Google Docs MLA Format Template (Will open in Google Docs)
- Notecards to Outline: video clip (6:25)
- Writing an Effective Thesis Statement: video clip (1:45)
- Writing an Introduction to a Research Paper: video clip (2:36)
- MLA In-Text Citations video clip: citing a source in the body of the paper (10:18)
- Signal Phrases and Parenthetical Citation: video clip on how to combine signal phrases and proper MLA citation (8:35)
- Sample Research Paper Discussion video clip: writing the rough draft (12:25)
- How to Write a Conclusion Paragraph video clip: (9:54)
A Quick Grammar and Style Refresher
- How to Use an Apostrophe (Why=because without them, Ms. Bishop is going to show your writing NO MERCY.)
- Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices.
- Avoiding Sentence Fragments.
- Comma Rules Part 1
- Comma Rules Part 2 (Yeah, these rules are confusing. See if this refresher helps.)
- Subject/Verb Agreement
- Grammarly grammar checking service and app.
- Hemingway App: for finding wordy sentences and passive voice--you're usually better off eliminating these!
These short videos talk you through specifics on how to use Google Docs to set up MLA formatting.
- Google Docs MLA Formatting Tutorial (4:17)
- Google Docs Hanging Intent Tutorial, for a Works Cited page (1:06) Trouble loading? Click here.
- MLA Formatting Tutorial video (4:59) Trouble loading? Click here.
- MLA Tutorial #2: Basic Citation Format video (5:26) Trouble loading? Click here.
- MLA Tutorial #3: Works Cited Page Formatting (5:30) Trouble loading? Click here.
- MLA Tutorial #4: Web Citations
- Word 2010 Hanging Indent Tutorial, for a Works Cited page (1:35)
Miscellaneous Tools
