Secondary Library: Dark Ages

Some tips for researching on a database:

• Use a * for a "wild card," this will let you search 1 time for a stem word and get all of the results for words that have different endings but the same stem. For example: contract* - searches any term that begins with “contract” (such as “contract”, “contracted”, or “contracts”).
• Putting words or phrased in "quotation marks" will tell the search engine you want that specific phrase ONLY, no other combination of those words
• Using our BOOLEAN OPERATORS can give us more or less specific results
  • keyboard NOT piano = only results about keyboards that are not for a piano (like keyboard for a computer)
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C-电流     R-相关    A-权威    A-准确    P-目的

• Add a ~ before a word to include synonyms
  • ~joseon dynasty
• Search one website by putting site:site name your search
  • ex. site:worldhistory.org space race                                                                                                                                                                         ^this will search for your term on that specific website, notice they're all from the same website: worldhistory.org. 
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  • You can also do the same thing with the TYPE of site, for example .gov, .org, .edu which are more authoritative sites that just .com
  • ex. site:.edu space race    or     site:.gov space race
• You can use our same BOOLEAN OPERATORS from before on most search engines as well.

When writing your research paper you will use In-text Citations, also called Parenthetical Citations(括号内的引文). They called that because they are in parenthesis (). You can find more information in the Purdue OWL, and Mr. Healy will be teaching you a lesson about it too.

When we write papers, it's important to give credit to the people who wrote the things we read. This is called MLA style. We have to be careful not to copy someone else's work without giving them credit. We can do this by putting their name and where we found the information in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Sometimes, we can put the information somewhere else in the sentence, there will be examples below. It's also important to make sure that the information we put in our paper matches what we put on the Works Cited page.

MLA format helps us give credit to authors and show where the information came from. In our writing, we have to put the author's last name and the page number in parentheses. We also have to make a list of all the books and articles we used at the end of our writing. The author's name can be in the sentence or in parentheses after the quote or idea, but the page number always goes in parentheses. If we want to know more about the book, we can look at the "Works Cited" or "Bibliography" list at the end. It will tell us the author's full name and the name of the book.

当我们写论文时，向撰写我们所读内容的人表示感谢非常重要。这称为 MLA 风格。我们必须小心，不要在没有注明出处的情况下抄袭别人的作品。我们可以通过将他们的名字和我们在句子末尾的括号中找到信息的位置来做到这一点。有时，我们可以把信息放在句子的其他地方，下面会有例子。确保我们在论文中输入的信息与我们在“引用的作品”页面上输入的信息相匹配也很重要。

MLA 格式帮助我们给予作者荣誉并显示信息的来源。在我们的写作中，我们必须将作者的姓氏和页码放在括号中。我们还必须在写作结束时列出我们使用的所有书籍和文章的清单。作者姓名可以出现在句子中，也可以出现在引用或想法后面的括号中，但页码始终位于括号中。如果我们想了解更多关于这本书的信息，我们可以查看最后的“被引作品”或“参考书目”列表。它会告诉我们作者的全名和书名。

Examples:

Quotations:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

Paraphrased:

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

If there is no known author you can put the title of the work, in quotations, in place of the Author's family name: ("Title")