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Extended Essay: Paperpile

A guide for DP students to guide the completion of the extended essay writing process

Introduction

Organizing Your Research

When working on projects requiring research it's important to stay organized. Using Paperpile helps you to:

  1. Know where your articles, websites, and information are located so you can find them when you need them
  2. Easily pull information from your sources by highlighting
  3. Have a place to put your paraphrasing
  4. Create accurate citations for your parenthetical citations and bibliographies, in order to give proper credit and be a scholarly researcher.

Paperpile Step-by-Step

Follow these steps to get set up with Paperpile:

Account
  • Go to paperpile.com
  • Navigate to the SIGN IN tab top right
    • Follow the steps to sign in with your amersol account.
Extension
Add-On
  • From any Google Doc, click Add-ons 
  • Add Paperpile
Google Drive Sync
  • Open Settings by clicking the arrow next to your initial in the top right corner and choosing "Settings".
  • Under "My account", toggle to allow access to Google Drive and then follow the login instructions.
Citation Style
  • Open Settings by clicking the arrow next to your initial in the top right corner and choosing "Settings".
  • Click on Citation Styles
  • Choose Modern Language Association 9th edition
Organize your Paperpile
  • Add a folder for each project/assignment you are collecting sources for.

Citation Guides

Paperpile on YouTube

Click here for the FDR Library Paperpile Playlist

Tutorial - Setting up Your Paperpile Account

 

 

Paperpile - Syncing with Google

Paperpile - Settings

Paperpile - Creating Folders

Paperpile - Adding Articles to Your Library

 

 

Paperpile - PDF Viewer - Highlighting and Annotating

 

 

Paperpile - Citing while writing in a Google Document

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