"A community garden is budding at the downtown Phoenix Human Services Campus, intended to help feed and heal the homeless community while creating an urban open space in the heart of the city..." Urban gardening story from the Republic

I read this article and think it'll provide leads to Candi and Chris on their papers. Enjoy.

A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.

Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model for current and future writing assignments.

This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.

Valuable tutorial for those struggling with the surveys.

Play this game and throw Chinese stars while learning parts of speech; includes a free downloadable version of the game.

If you want to review grammar, enjoy!

Outstanding survey site; useful for building on WGR chapter 5. Also, using this can fulfill primary research requirements for the WP2.

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Valuable tutorial. Check the links on the right side of the page.

Ten years after FFN's release, Schlosser and Michael Pollan (Ominvore's Dilemma author) discuss awareness of issues raised in Fast Food Nation.

From the Guardian, examples of some memorable interviews with famous figures.

Funny video on evaluating website credibility, even if it perpetuates negative stereotypes of youth. West De Pere librarian helps a student.

Information is everywhere! Its just so easy to Google and use something that looks relevant... So why can't you just Google?

Do you want to decrease your time spent searching online? You can improve your searching abilities by using an easy tool called "Boolean operators."

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Resource for short clips, documentaries, and other valuable resources to meet content, skill, and performance objective needs.

Essential resource to find opposing viewpoints, get credible research, and stay informed on your chosen topic.