Citation and Research Help

Hale Middle School: Website Evaluation

TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial -- A nice tutorial from the University of Texas on how to find and evaluate information

Evaluating Websites -- From the Multnomah County Library Homework Center...common sense rules to follow in deciding to use website information.

Evaluating Websites -- From Cornell University Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

Citing Electronic Sources--MLA style -- Guide from the Santa Rosa Junior College (Requires Adobe Reader)

General Guidelines for Work Cited at Hale:

• Use reverse indentation for all entries.
• Single space entries and double space between entries.
• All entries will begin with a capital letter and end with a period.
• All entries must be alphabetized by the first letter of the first entry in the citation (usually author's last name or the title of the work).
• Ignore articles (An, A or The).
• Entries should not be numbered.

Sample of Work Cited Page for Hale Middle School (Word Document)

Quality Information Checklist -- A quick checklist of 8 questions to determine the quality of information on the web

Kids Click! Web Search-- A large directory of searchable web resources picked for kids by librarians

Citation Machine -- The Landmark Project --http://citationmachine.net/-- Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.