Definitions
NoodleTools
Plagiarism
Citing Books
Citing Websites
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What is a "bibliography"?
A list of resources you used for a research project. Any books, websites, or encyclopedias you use to find information for a project go into your bibliography!
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What is the website we use to make our bibliographies?
NoodleTools! (This one was tooooo easy!)
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Why do we have to write a bibliography? Give TWO reasons.
There are LOTS of reasons! Let's try to name a few!
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What are 3 of the 5 pieces of information you need in order to cite a book in a bibliography?
Author Title City of Publication Publisher Year of Publication
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If you used the “Giant Panda” page on National Geographic (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giant-panda/), What would you put down in Noodletools as the “Name of the Web SITE”?
National Geographic! That is the name of the whole website.
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What is "plagiarism"?
Using someone else’s work without permission or giving credit. To avoid plagiarism, we put information into our own words and give credit in our bibliography.
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What do we do if Noodletools asks us for something (like a date of e-publication) and our source doesn’t give us that information?
LEAVE IT BLANK! We can't just make up information if the website doesn't share it!
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What can happen if you plagiarize in college?
You can fail a class, or even get kicked out!
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Where in a book should we look for MOST of the information we need to cite a book? Is it the glossary, the title page, the cover, or the index?
Title page! This page usually gives you the title, author, and publisher, and usually has the city of publication, too!
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If you used the “Giant Panda” page on National Geographic (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giant-panda/), What do you put down in Noodletools as the “Name of the Web PAGE?
The name of the web page is "Giant Panda." There is one webPAGE on Giant Pandas on the entire webSITE that is National Geographic!
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What is the “URL” of a website?
The web address for a website. Where is the URL for THIS website?
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What is our Noodletools Username?
First and last name, no caps, no spaces. Mickey Mouse's user name is mickeymouse.
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Is it possible to plagiarize by accident?
Yes! How do you think that might happen?
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What should we do if NoodleTools asks for a middle name, but the author of our book is printed as "Jane Riley"?
Leave the middle name section blank!
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If you used the “Giant Panda” page on National Geographic (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giant-panda/), What do you put down in Noodletools as the “URL"?
The URL (or web address) is: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giant-panda/, so you would copy and paste that into NoodleTools.
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What is an example of a “reference source”?
Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and Atlas are all examples of "reference sources." They are cited differently than regular books in our bibliography!
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What is our Noodletools password?
First and last initial (lowercase) and our student ID number (AKA lunch code). Mickey Mouse's password is mm212111.
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Which of the following is an example of plagiarism? 1. Using information from a website, putting it into your own words, and properly citing it in Noodletools 2. Putting an author’s words into your paper word for word without using quotation marks 3.Writing your own fictional short story and not including a bibliography
#2! If you copy and paste a book or website word for word, that is plagiarism, even if you put the source in your bibliography! Put information into your own words!
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What is one piece of information we DO NOT need to include when citing a book?
Page numbers, illustrator, country of publication. There are only 5 pieces of information you'll need when citing a book.
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What is the difference between a web PAGE and a web SITE?
A web page is a single page of information, while a website is a number of web pages connected by links. A web SITE like Wikipedia is made up of thousands of web PAGES on lots of different topics!
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Is a "publisher" of a book or website a person, or a company?
It's the company or organization that makes a book or sponsors a website!
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What is the “citation style we use in Noodletools when we make a new bibliography? MLA, APA, or Chicago?
MLA! "Citation Style" means how information is organized in a bibliography. At IMMS, we always use MLA, because: Ms. Linck's Awesome
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What is "paraphrasing"?
Putting information from a book or website into your own words, instead of copying word for word.
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You typed in "Brown Bear Books" under "Publisher" for your book, and a yellow exclamation point sign came up! NoodleTools tells you to "Omit business types like Books, Press, and Publishers." What does NoodleTools mean when they say we should "omit" a word?
Omit means to leave something out. So they are telling you to delete the word "Books" and just put "Brown Bear" for your publisher.
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Where do we look for the website's publisher?
At the bottom of the page (Look for a copyright statement!)