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Writing reports | General homework help
| Biographies | Literature
U.S. History | Science & math | World History & Events
Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias | How
to Search the Web
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Preparation
Need help with your
homework? Click on the Live Homework Help Online icon on the left. You
will need your Pasadena library card number to use this service from
home, as well as any others marked with the little
symbol.
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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Citation Style (describes the different ways to cite information
in your bibliography) |
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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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The CQ Researcher
(Search
the Congressional Quarterly Researcher for the most current and
controversial issues, insight into all sides of the issues,
bibliographies and more.) |
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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.
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
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Dictionary.com
(reference books online) |
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Encarta
(online encyclopedia with other aids)
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Encyclopedia Britannica (Not the full text of the encyclopedia, but lots of good
information and fun stuff as well)
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Farmer's
Almanac (weather, eclipses, holidays, and stuff about history
and culture) |
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The
Free Dictionary (a dictionary and encyclopedia arranged by
subject--good for finding related terms) |
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Glossarist
(a
collection of links for glossaries arranged by subject. Need
sailing terminology, or words to describe Afro-pop styles?
You’ll find them here.)
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I
Love Languages (links to dictionaries, lessons and other info
for many, many languages) |
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One
Look (a LOT of on-line dictionaries)
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Year You Were
Born (from InfoPlease almanac) |
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Your Dictionary (dictionaries in many languages) |
Tutorials and instructions on how to find
things we don't list here.
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