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Teaching and Evaluating Research : Citing or Acknowledging Sources

Suggestions for introducing students to research and developing successful assignments. An SFCC faculty developed rubric for evaluating student research projects.

APA Citation Style

APA Tutorial -Bellvue College
This is a pretty straight forward guide.
APA Quick Guide - Highline Community College
Diana Hacker APA
Cornell APA
APA Style Powerpoint
For those who learn visually this is a nice simple explanation of APA.
SFCC Library Guide to APA Citations
Captain Citation handout.

MLA Format

MLA Diana Hacker
Covers in-text citations, works cited page and paper layout based on MLA 7th edition. Numerous examples shown.
Lake Forest College Sample Citations
Samples of database articles citations using 2009 MLA. SFCC students will substitute the database names: Proquest and Academic Search Complete for Academic Search Premier and SocINDEX
Link to SFCC MLA Citation Page

Resources / Tutorials

Plaigiarism Tutorial
IRIS
IRIS - Evaluate Web Sources
We could add a quiz for this resource.
IRIS - Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes are matched to a tutorial

Citation Styles

Faculty at colleges and universities say that they expect students to understand the importance of citing their sources and the basics elements of a citation.

Plagiarism Tutorial

You Quote it You Note It!

An animated interactive tutorial;

Click on the picture to begin. Press NEXT to continue

or use the link below