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CITING SOURCES

General
Citing Sources: What, Why, Where, & How (powerpoint)
Research Documentation & Bibliography - from Diana Hacker
Using Paraphrases

Online Source Citation
Citation Guide for Internet Sources
Turabian Online
Electronic Source Citation
Citing Electronic Sources

MLA Stye Guides
WAHS Bibliography format (MLA)
MLA Style Guide
MLA Citation Style
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Univ. of Wisconsin's Writing Center
Duke University's Guide to citing sources and avoiding plagiarism.

Online Biblio Creation
BibMe - choice of formats
Easy Biblio Creation
Turabian Citation Generator
Rapid Cite
Guide to MLA

Turabian (Chicago) Style Guides
WAHS Bibliography Format (Turabian)
Chicago Manual of Style - from Ohio State.
Turabian Footnotes - from the Duke University library.
Turabian Style Footnotes - from Bridgewater State College
Turabian Style Guide - from the University of Southern Mississippi
Turabian Samples - from Ithaca College Chicago Style - from Washington College

APA Style Guides
APA Online - from the American Psychological Assn.
APA Formatting - from the OWL at Purdue
APA Crib Sheet - from Wooster College
APA Citation Guide - from Arizona State

RESEARCH & WRITING

GENERAL REFERENCE

General
Wikipedia - double check info
IPL's Reference Center
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Reference Desk @ About.com
Columbia Encyclopedia
Itools
Educating Jane's Study Hall
Top 100 Lists
U.S. Census 2000
Google Book Search
Bartleby Great Books Online
Librivox Free Audiobooks

Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary (pw req at home)
American Heritage Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
Dictionary.com
Free Dictionary
The Glossarist
Rhyming Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Free Online Dictionary of Computing Dict. of Units of Measurement
World Language Dictionaries
GoEnglish Pocket English Idioms

Quotations
Bartlett's Quotations Plus
Brainy Quote
Quote Land
Rock Wisdom - quotations from rock songs from the 1950s to the present.

Homework Help
High School Hub
Homework Spot
Jiskha Homework Help
Fast Facts

Nations of the World
CultureGrams (pw required at home)
CIA World Factbook
Atlapedia Atlas
Portals to the World
Library of Congress Country Studies
State Dept. Background Notes

Flags
World Flag Database
Flags of the World

Recipes
World Recipes
Epicurious
Mr. Food
International Vegetarian Union
In a Vegetarian Kitchen

Biography
The Nobel E-Museum
Great Achievers
The Bio Dictionary
Biographies.com
The Time 100
Who2
PBS Biographies

Search Engines

MegaSearch
Google Google Scholar Clusty Alta Vista Answers Yahoo	Vivisimo All the Web Dogpile IxQuick Metacrawler

International
Google Espana
Google Mexico
Google France
Google Deutschland
Google Japan

CURRENT EVENTS

Local
Daily Progress
The Hook
C-ville Weekly
Crozet Gazette
NBC 29
ABC 16
Monticello Avenue - Gateway to C'ville resources

National
New York Times
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
CNN
ABC News
CBS News
Weather

Magazine Indexes
InfoTrac Student Edition
American Heritage online index
National Geographic online index

International
London Times
BBC News
International Newspapers
Major Global Newspapers
United Nations News Center

All of the Above
Today's Front Pages across the world, from the Newseum

COLLEGE & CAREER

College Search
Virginia Mentor
America's Best Colleges 2009
Princeton Review
College Search
College Board
College Confidential
College Tours
Off to College
Colleges.com
Early College Scholars Program

Careers - General
Virginia's Career Planning System (Kuder)
Virginia View
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Career Path
Career Builder Advice
Career Resources
Career Planning - from About.com

Careers - Specific
Monticello Avenue - local employment opportunities
NCAA Academics & Athletes
Life After High School - for students with disabilities
Career Center - for health professions