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Introduction to Research for Essay Writing

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University of California, Irvine

Introduction to Research for Essay Writing

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Curso 4 de 5 em Specialization Inglês para Fins Acadêmicos: Composição Escrita

Course 4: Introduction to Research for Essay Writing This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper. After completing this course, you will be able to: - choose appropriate research topics for college classes - write detailed outlines for research papers - find source material for research papers - take and organize good notes for research - use appropriate academic tone and language - document sources by creating a Works Cited list in MLA format - avoid plagiarizing your sources

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More on Citing Sources and Formatting

In this last module, you will learn more about citing sources in your research paper. You'll review MLA format and learn a little bit about APA format. Finally, you'll learn about some online resources that will make formatting your papers much easier.

Using EasyBib Video Lecture3:54

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Tamy Chapman
Instructor, International Programs
University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education
Helen Nam
Instructor
International Programs, UCI Extension

Now I'm going to show you an online resource called EasyBib.

EasyBib is something that a lot of college students use

to create their work cited pages, or their reference page.

But a lot of them don't know how to use it correctly, so

I'm going to show you how to do that.

Here's the website EasyBib and you can see that the default is MLA format.

They also have APA format and Chicago format, but

those are part of the paid subscription, so you would have to pay for

the pro subscription in order to get access to those other formats.

But if you just wanna use MLA then the free version will work for you.

Now they want me to enter a link that I want to create a work cited for.

I've already saved a link so I'm just going to paste it here and

then click Cite It.

EasyBib tells me that they found some of the information from my source.

They found the website title.

They found the publisher.

They say that they did not find the article title, or

the date that it was published, or even the author.

I'm going to have to provide some of the information to get the full citation and

the next thing to do is click Continue.

And now you can see what information they have.

So here's website title, that's correct, and the publisher, that's correct.

But this other information is missing, I need the article title.

So I have to go back to my source and get the article title here.

I'm going to see if I can just copy it.

But I'm realizing, look, it doesn't have the correct capital letters for MLA, so

I'll have to change that later.

And then I'll paste it back here in EasyBib.

Now MLA format requires capital letters on all of the important nouns and

verbs, so I'm going to go ahead and do that.

Don't forget to do that because EasyBib won't do it for you, right.

Then I also need to include the author information cuz EasyBib didn't find that.

I go back to the article.

Here's the author's name, right here, Joy Resmovitz.

So I'm going to try to remember that and I'll type it.

Okay, so that's correct and

then EasyBib also needs me to put in the electronically published date.

That's on the website too, and I can see it right here, December 10th, 2015.

And EasyBib always uses today's date as the date accessed, but

I actually accessed this on the tenth so I'm going to change that.

And once you have all of that information put in here, then you click Create.

And EasyBib says, Hooray!

Here's your citation.

So this is the citation that they formatted for me for MLA format.

It says you can copy and paste the citation,

I sometimes just copy it from here.

But one thing I want to warn you about

is you still have to check this to make sure it's correct.

Here's my Works Cited page, so I'll paste what I got from EasyBib.

You can see when I pasted it, it's not formatted correctly.

It's the wrong size and it's the wrong font, so I need to select all of that.

And you could do it after you put all of your citations in,

I'm just gonna do it for this one right now.

Remember, fonts needs to be 12 point and it should be Times New Roman or

something similar to that.

So I'll use Times New Roman.

And then I wanna make sure the punctuation is all correct, so I'm looking here.

I've got my title in quotation marks, the important words are capitalized,

there's a period at the end.

Now, remember each line after the first line needs to be indented.

So I put my cursor here and hit Return, and then I hit Tab.

So now my citation looks pretty good.

And you would use EasyBib for each of your sources,

you could paste the next link right here and start your search again.

I just want to warn you, back here, when we had to enter the information,

sometimes you will have to enter even more,

sometimes it doesn't even find the website title.

So always make sure you still have the source available so

that you can get all of the information you need.

However, it's nice that if you give that information to EasyBib,

it will put it in a correct order for you.

So EasyBib is a nice resource to have as long as you know how to use it correctly.

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