SCI: Grade 9: Research Skills

Paperpile is a tool that searches, saves, supports note-taking, and cites sources. Sources saved in Paperpile can be automatically cited in google docs, including creation of the Works Cited page.

• Open Paperpile and connect via your amersol account
• Allow (or install) the extension and Doc Add-on

Video about it HERE

Paperpile Scavenger Hunt:

Figure out how to....

• Add sources in several ways
• Create a folder + share it
• Organize folders
• Label sources
• Edit a citation
• Set a citation style
• Make a note

Handy Chrome Extension: Print PDF - easy to turn websites into PDFs to save easily (or print)

The Rule of Three: Keep these things together

• Source (w/ page number)
• Quoted material
• Your paraphrase of the quotation
• * BONUS * Your COMMENTS

Why?

• Track sources
• Track thinking - don't take a note on something you don't understand
• Distinguish between "their" information and your words

All of these keep your source, quoted material, and paraphrase together

Grid Style Notes: Put your source once and create a new note for each fact from that source

Digital Note Cards: Fill in the cards and organize later by cutting and sorting

Cornell Notes: Track the key points as you go, put your paraphrase under your quoted material

Use these Templates

• Cornell Notes template: Capture the details, key points, and to summarize your thinking about your information
• MEAL Outline template: Organize your ideas into categories (Main Ideas), with supporting details from your notes (Evidence), and your own ideas (Analysis) about what the evidence shows.
  • Type your information into this template, merge the cells, and you'll see a perfect MEAL paragraph appear like magic!

Do the reference when you FIND IT!

Science work is referenced using the American Psychological Association style for citations (APA).

A non-print source is referenced like this in APA:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). Retrieved from 
http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

For example:

Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving

(From Purdue OWL)

Sample Bibliography

Bibliography Checklist (Forced copy) to check your work.

   Search Tips:

• Identify Key Words: Write out questions, circle necessary words, anticipate words in the answer
• Use Booleans to narrow or broaden your search (And, Or, Not)
• Use truncation (*) to catch more results (for example: creat* will bring create, creation, creating...)
• Use quotation marks for exact phrase searching ("Florida Marlins")
• Use wildcards (?) to catch various spellings or meanings (wom?n brings woman and women)
• Use a minus sign to filter out irrelevant results (-fish)
• Filter results with "Search Tools" in Google
• Search for files and scans using " filetype:pdf" in a search
• Limit results by domain, such as .gov  .edu  .pe 
• Limit to terms in the title of a site or article with "intitle:"

Sample Search String:

• "amnesty international"    iran   intitle:execution*    site:http://.gov    "cultur* impact"    -oil

Using Google? Choose Advanced Search

Build a search string with Boolify - a puzzle-style google search

via Google Search lessons (All lessons)