Page 1 CONTENTS What Is a Research Project? But Where do I Start? Developing a Working Source List SourceCards Preparing to Take Notes Plagiarism In-Text Documentation Preparing the List of Works Cited Working with Online Sources Some General Guidelines in MLA Style Citation Final Steps to a Finished Draft Student Guidelines for Multimedia and Web Page Production Steps in Online Searching Search Strategies for the Web and Online Databases Approaching Research Appendices

The School District of Springfield Township "Research Guide" is designed to help students master the preparation of research projects. The formats used in this guide are fashioned after the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

Questions not answered by this guide should be directed to the teacher assigning the research project.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Joanna Connor for sharing her title page, to Lisa Ngov for her acknowledgements page and to Ted Webster for sharing sample work

Works Cited

"Information Power: The Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning." AASL Homepage. 2000. ALA. 16 June 2000. .

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th edition. New York: MLA, 1999

"MLA Style: Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web" MLA Online. 1999. MLA. 16 June 2000. .