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Use the ALexandria Catalog to search for print books when you are researching.

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Can't find it in the school library?

Look at the Alhambra Public Library Catalog to find what you are looking for. It's across the street!

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Welcome to the Alhambra Civic Center Library Catalog!

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Do you need basic information about a topic?

Britannica is an online encyclopedia that includes articles, images and videos, and biographies to help you find reliable information quickly.

Off-Campus Login:
Username: alhambra

Password:  ausd

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Welcome to Britannica School, a safe, up-to-date, and age-appropriate information resource for Elementary, Middle, and High School.

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Do you need more in-depth research information?

eLibrary is an online database that can help you find information from newspapers, magazines, articles, videos, & reference information.

Off-Campus Login:
Username: Ausdstudent

Password: Gradu@tion0!

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The UCLA Library provides a list of useful tips to avoid plagiarizing.

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The entire section below came from a research guide from Iowa State University. To avoid plagiarism, one must provide a reference to that source to indicate where the original information came from (see the "Source:" section below).

"There are many ways to avoid plagiarism, including developing good research habits, good time management, and taking responsibility for your own learning. Here are some specific tips:

Don't procrastinate with your research and assignments.
Good research takes time. Procrastinating makes it likely you'll run out of time or be unduly pressured to finish. This sort of pressure can often lead to sloppy research habits and bad decisions. Plan your research well in advance, and seek help when needed from your professor, from librarians and other campus support staff.

Commit to doing your own work.
If you don't understand an assignment, talk with your professor. Don't take the "easy way" out by asking your roommate or friends for copies of old assignments. A different aspect of this is group work. Group projects are very popular in some classes on campus, but not all. Make sure you clearly understand when your professor says it's okay to work with others on assignments and submit group work on assignments, versus when assignments and papers need to represent yourown work.

Be 100% scrupulous in your note taking.
As you prepare your paper or research, and as you begin drafting your paper. One good practice is to clearly label in your notes your own ideas (write "ME" in parentheses) and ideas and words from others (write "SMITH, 2005" or something to indicate author, source, source date). Keep good records of the sources you consult, and the ideas you take from them. If you're writing a paper, you'll need this information for your bibliographies or references cited list anyway, so you'll benefit from good organization from the beginning.

Cite your sources scrupulously.
Always cite other people's work, words, ideas and phrases that you use directly or indirectly in your paper. Regardless of whether you found the information in a book, article, or website, and whether it's text, a graphic, an illustration, chart or table, you need to cite it. When you use words or phrases from other sources, these need to be in quotes. Current style manuals are available at most reference desks and online. They may also give further advice on avoiding plagiarism.

Understand good paraphrasing.
Simply using synonyms or scrambling an author's words and phrases and then using these "rewrites" uncredited in your work is plagiarism, plain and simple. Good paraphrasing requires that you genuinely understand the original source, that you are genuinely using your own words to summarize a point or concept, and that you insert in quotes any unique words or phrases you use from the original source.Good paraphrasing also requires that you cite the original source. Anything less and you veer into the dangerous territory of plagiarism."

Source: Vega García, S.A. (2012). Understanding plagiarism: Information literacy guide. Iowa State University. Retrieved from http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/content.php?pid=10314. [Accessed January 3, 2017]

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Research Guides: Citing Sources: How to Avoid Plagiarism

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Research Guides: Citing Sources: How to Avoid Plagiarism

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Purdue University also provides helpful links to give credit to the authors and creators of the content.

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Do you need a basic handout to show APA format? Go to the East Los Angeles Community College's APA 7th Edition Guide.

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Do you need a handout to show basic MLA information? Go to East Los Angeles Community College's Handout.

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Do you need in-depth MLA formatting information? Do you need to cite a video? online database? online article?

Go to the University of Purdue's Online Writing Lab MLA site and look at all the topics covered to choose what you need when citing in MLA format.

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MLA Formatting and Style Guide - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University

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MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (9th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

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Do you need help with APA formatting? Do you need to cite a newspaper or video but don't know how?

Go to the University of Purdue's Online Writing Lab and look at all the topics covered to cite in APA format like a professional!

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In-Text Citations: The Basics - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University

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BibMe can create citations in APA and MLA format. You can also check your essay for plagiarism.

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