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Writing reports | General homework help
| Biographies |
Languages |
Literature
U.S. History | Science & math |
World History & Events
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias |
How
to Search the Web
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Preparation
Are you a teacher
who wants to connect with our library for assistance or planning? If so,
click to go to our
Teacher Pages
Need help finding a
newspaper or magazine article for a report or project? Now you can use
InfoTrac from home, if you have a Pasadena Public Library card.
InfoTrac OneFile
has full text on many articles, and what you need to look them up on the
rest.
These sites have information that will help you with
the hows and whys of writing a report.
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A Plus (Internet Public Library's site about
writing papers)
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Citation Machine (Landmarks Citation Machine helps you make your
bibliography look good and be correct) |
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Citing
Sources (the rules and methods, along with a simpler citation
machine and other report help) |
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Elements of Style (the classic book
about grammar and writing is now on-line)
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Nuts
and Bolts Guide (online guide to writing)
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OWL
(Online Writing Lab, help with how and why to do things for
reports and essays, among other things)
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Paradigm
(Another writer's helper, with lessons and aids)
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Starting Your Report (helps you
to outline and organize your report, from middle school to grad school)
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Sites to help you with day-to-day stuff, not just big
reports
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ABC Clio Suite
(History, geography, and government information) |
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Exhibits from CPB (fun way of getting useful
information about everything from history to the physics of a roller coaster)
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High
School Ace (links organized by subject, along with reference
and news sources)
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Information Please (almanacs and other date-based
information, plus fun quizzes)
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Photo Collection (see who or what you're
studying...from the Library of Congress)
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Quoteland (quotations from famous and infamous people)
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Virtual Reference Desk (an online bookshelf
to help you look things up)
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Information about famous people just about
everywhere.
Learn languages on
your own, or get help with your language classes.
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I
Love Languages (links to dictionaries, lessons and other info
for many, many languages) |
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Mango (an online language-learning system) |
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Your Dictionary (dictionaries in many languages) |
Literature, authors, on-line text sources...
Help for science projects as well as homework
Help with
standardized tests
Includes sites to show you what things looked like
Facts and figures
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ABC Clio Suite
A research resource for
students in junior high, high school and first year
college |
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Atlapedia
(combination atlas/encyclopedia, good for finding information
about countries)
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CIA Online Factbook (current
world information, facts and figures)
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Hyperhistory (links and
timelines)
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Specific world history links
Basic reference works on-line, including many
language-to-language dictionaries
Tutorials and instructions on how to find
things we don't list here.
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Bare
Bones 101 (a great tutorial on how to use search engines to
find things on the web)
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Diigo ("dii" is pronounced like
"wii"...a good site if you're working on a group project...you can
share web pages and even mark them, as if you could put post-it
notes on the web) |
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Evaluacion critica de una pagina web [pdf] |
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Furl (another site for marking
web pages while doing research, so that you can find the links
later) |
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Learn the
Net (web tutorial, in English and Spanish) |
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Pasadena
Library Web Tutorial (a simple guide for the beginner, to get
you started) |
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