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The Learning Center is designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.
Our site offers information about:

* Plagiarism defined, in easy-to-understand terms
* Tips on how to avoid both internet-based and conventional plagiarism
* Guidelines for proper citation, and links to help with specific citation styles
* Suggestions for developing good research and writing skills
* Answers to frequently asked questions, including explanations for often misunderstood concepts like fair use, public domain, and copyright laws
* Definitions for important research-related terms
* Suggestions for integrating plagiarism education into lesson plans
* Tips for creating assignments that discourage plagiarism and encourage original thinking
* Information on the causes of plagiarism today
* Help with identifying different types of plagiarism, in particular plagiarism from the internet
* Printable handouts for students on plagiarism, proper citation, and paper writing

A kid-safe search engine powered by Google custom search. It uses a combination of Googles safe search mode and their own database of restricted elements. It also has a site removal request form if something does get past the filters

Boolify is an educational Boolean search tool. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results.

This site offers acronyms, abbreviations, conversions, quotations, definitions and synonyms

This search engine can help you to find the most trustworthy sites so you can draw your information from those.

eNotes features online study guides, lesson plans, and other reference material in a wide range of academic areas.

Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, the nation, and the world.

Every Thursday morning we send out our free newsletter, New This Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more

Access the complete works of William Shakespeare. All his works along with a lot of interesting tools to aid in studies of them. Each of the works is completely searchable. Tthe site offers a concordance, which allows users to trace all uses Shakespeare made of any particular word. You can also view sonnets individually, or choose any two to examine side by side.

Excellent rubrics and explanations

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