Research Introduction Junior Movie Review Project
www.pcwlibrary.weebly.com PC West Library Home Page Begin Here. This has links to all of the sites we will discuss this week.
Ebsco Host You will use Ebsco Host to find the movie reviews for your paper. When you get to this screen, click on Ebscohost Web
Type movie name and movie review Then hit search. Don t hit search before Full text. Choose Full text
You can find title of source and date here. Look at titles, date, and sources to help narrow down which ones to look at. Make sure you choose reliable sources and current publications.
On this page, you ll notice a couple of different things. On the right hand side, you ll see you can print and/or email it. You will need to do one of those so you have access to the citation info. You can also listen to your article if you need to. Once you re done with this, you ll go back to result list and find #2.
Repeat steps to find review #2! Check out the remaining pages! Make sure you print or email!
Google Drive and Docs
You will sign in with your gmail account. If you don t have one, I suggest you create one you can remember bcs you will use this for LOTS of other classes. If you don t want to create one, you have one through PC schools. It s your computer username@putnamcitystudent. The password will be your regular password or pcschools.
Slay, Jill 1st sgateley@putnamcitysschools.org Times New Roman 12 pt Drop down and choose double You ll do a few things on this page: 1. Change the name to LastName, First hour. 2. Share with your paper with your teacher. 3. Check the font type and size. 4. Make your paper doublespaced.
Heading Center the title and back to left for the text. Thesis is last sentence.
EasyBib You will use Easy Bib to keep track of your sources and to create your works cited page.
Choose sign up, unless you KNOW your log in.
Use your Google account that you just created to access Google Docs.
Choose review. Click on this 1 st. Look for Review
On this page you will check a couple of things: 1. Make sure its in MLA 7. 2. Check your printed review to see if it is from a magazine or newspaper, and select the correct one. 3. Change Source Was to published in an online database.
Your movie title. Leave URL Blank
Top of Page Leave blank
You will IGNORE this option! Hooray! It did the hard part for you! It created your citation. After you enter the info for BOTH of your reviews, you will see two entries. You will chose ALL next to Select. Then select EXPORT. Choose Save to Google Docs.
You should see your entries on the page. You will highlight the whole thing and right click. Choose COPY. The click on the blue box in the top left corner.
Select your mini research paper you ve started.
Go to the first line with no typing on it and right click. Choose PASTE.
Your paper should look something like this. You will move your cursor to right next to the W from Works Cited. Hit CTRL+Enter together.
Now your Works Cited page will be on the last page of your document. It wont be affected by you typing the rest of your paper. It is also already formatted in MLA format.
Your paper is Finished!!! Even though you ve already set up sharing, once you are finished, you will: 1. Click Share 2. Enter your teacher s email. 3. Write in the note that you are finished with your name and hour. 4. Click Send. 5. Celebrate that now you are done and your teacher s work starts!