Online Reading Strategies. Son of Citation Machine. The Encyclopedia Britannica was expensive, useless, and exploitative. I’m glad it’s gone. Photograph by Mario Tama/Getty Images. It was either a door-to-door salesman or a hawker at the county fair who suckered my parents into buying the Encyclopedia Britannica. My folks have always been putty for smooth salesmen—over the years they’ve been cowed into paying too much for a supposedly amazing vacuum cleaner, a set of purportedly indestructible kitchen knives, a home water softener, and too many infomercial gadgets to name.
They were the perfect marks for the encyclopedia man: They wanted to give their kids a good start in life, they believed in the expansive possibilities of consumer goods, and they trusted the authority of the Britannica name. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow During all of middle- and high school, I reached for the Britannica two or three times, at most.
Well, the Britannica isn’t quite dead yet. To see what I mean, let’s go back to that Lincoln entry. Don’t buy what Britannica’s selling. MLA Formatting and Style Guide. Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
Contributors:Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, Purdue OWL StaffLast Edited: 2012-05-09 07:17:57 Please use the example at the bottom of this page to cite the Purdue OWL in MLA. To see a side-by-side comparison of the three most widely used citation styles, including a chart of all MLA citation guidelines, see the Citation Style Chart. You can also watch our MLA vidcast series on the Purdue OWL YouTube Channel. General Format MLA style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing. Research & Writing. Why Online Research? Primary sources -- the heart of the research process -- are increasingly available on the Web and will become predominantly digitally based in the future.
Furthermore, as conventional, print-based text gives way to screen-based "multimodal" communication, the researcher of the 21st century will be as likely to encounter multimedia primary sources as print-based ones. As such, historians, educators, and students must improve their skills of accessing, evaluating, and collaborating with digital primary sources in networked environments. This section can help students search the Web more effectively via using Google Advanced Search, historical databases, and more. Online Research Resources There are plenty of excellent online research resources, guides, and tutorials on the Web, and in print.
NoodleTools Noodle Tools is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with online research. SweetSearch SweetSearch is a search engine for students. Welcome // Web-based Internet Evaluation. 21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World. In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes.
" Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium. Basic Language Literacy Visual Literacy Spatial Literacy Three Information Literacy Questions to Ask About a Map: Handout Historical Literacy Cultural Literacy Information Literacy Political Literacy and News Media Literacy Scientific Literacy Mathematical Literacy. NoteStar : A Project Based Learning Research Tool. Research and Documentation Online 5th Edition. Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
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More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Because the Internet contains a vast amount of information from reliable and unreliable sources, wading through all the material could prove to be overwhelming for students. Back to top Internet Citation Organizer: Students can use this handout to help them organize the bibliographic data of sources they find on the Internet. Wepner, S., Valmont, W.J., & Thurlow, R.