bibliographical citations

Presents twenty lessons and hand-on activities--including games, core activities, and assessment and review tools--for teaching information literacy, covering such topics as brainstorming, search strings, citations, publishing cycles, and bibliography, and provides ready-to-print activity materials on CD-ROM.

Summarizes the documentation style of the Modern Language Association of America as it pertains to writing research papers, providing information on how to prepare a bibliography, how to document sources within the text of a paper, when and how to use footnotes and endnotes, and how to avoid plagiarizing.

Offers students practical advice on how they can find information for reports and projects and explains the correct way for citing different types of sources, including books, images, music, and videos, as well as discussing the importance of following copyright rules and protecting their own creative works.