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APA/MLA

APA & MLA

When Do I Need to Cite?

Where to find info: APA & MLA libguides; What's new in MLA 8th.

Library workshops & Laulima quiz

How to help your students (don’t have time, don’t see how it’s related to what they want to do at college, don’t know how) avoid plagiarism:

  • For content-heavy classe, maybe focus on quotation/copy & paste to prevent students from just copying chunks from their textbook.
  • Provide templates, samples, examples of good and bad citations, metaphors: They Say/I Say, red shoes in ebay, muddled up address on envelope.
  • Student Checklist and Flavors of Plagiarism 

Documentation is not just about having a reference list:

  • Did you use sources that are good enough for college research?
  • Did you link up your in-text citations with your reference list?
  • Is every reference in your list discussed in your paper?
  • Did you read critical and analyzed the source instead of just droppping a quotation to fulfill the minimum paper requirements?

Common problems:

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LIBRARY: TEACHING & RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR FACULTY

Teaching & Research Resources

Journals vs Magazines


Journal, Magazine, & Newspaper Databases:

Books & Videos:

Student resources:

  • Study Hub: Tutoring for all levels of Math & writing, and other subjects.

Tips & Handouts:

Embedding Videos & Images

  • Digital Archive Collection (UH Manoa): Hawaii and Pacific historical and cultural images and videos.
  • FilmsOnDemand
    • In Laulima, choose Add Resource
    • Paste the url from FilmsOnDemand
  • Google Video: Use Search Tools to limit by duration, closed caption, etc.
    • Look for param name="movie" value= to copy the url
  • Vimeo:
    • In Laulima, choose Add Multimedia
    • In Vimeo, look for the Share icon on the top right side
    • Add player and video to the url. For example, https://vimeo.com/125042947 becomes https://player.vimeo.com/video/125042947 
    • In Laulima, check that it uses https instead of http
    • Use Edit to change the aspect ratio
  • YouTube:
    • In Laulima, click on Site Info, Edit Tools, Lessons.
    • After the Lessons link appear on your left navigation panel, choose Add Multimedia
    • In YouTube, grab the Share (url), not Embed info
    • In Laulima, check that it uses https instead of http
    • Use Edit to change the aspect ratio

GOOGLE TIPS & TRICKS FOR QUALITY RESEARCH

 Google & Google Scholar

GOOGLE & GOOGLE ALERTS

Limits:

Expands:

Favorite Google tools: More Tips & Tricks

Image Search:

Video Search:

  • Limits: Duration, closed captions, create alerts

FAQs from students: How to cite a web article?


GOOGLE SCHOLAR (video)

Settings:

  • Add Kapiolani Community College in the Library Links to get more free articles
  • Advanced Search is also accessible via the search box

Limits:

  • Use Any Time limit on the left panel.
  • Use intitle: author

Expands:

  • In results, to get a broad overview of literature: Use Cited By & Related Articles
  • If fulltext is not readily available, click on All Versions
  • Use Related Articles or Cited By/Search within Citing Articles.

Other Features:

  • Create Alert is on the left panel
  • Automatic Cite is available.

GOOGLE BOOKS

  • Use Search Tools to limit to Any Books: Fullview, Preview, Snippets
  • Search inside the book

Questions?

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