Top 10 Reasons to Visit

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Top 10 Reasons to Visit

• Your Capital

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To Begin

• Once you have selected your capital, you will
  want to begin looking for information. I suggest
  starting with
• Wikipedia.

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A Caution

• Wikipedia is not a reliable source for research
  anyone can change any entry at any time.

Therefore, Wikipedia is not to be used as a
source, but as a means of beginning the search
for valid sources.
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Using WikipediaTrick 1

• At the bottom of most entries, you will find a
  section entitled References and external links.

These are sources outside Wikipedia that have
usually been checked out already. Therefore,
these sites can be used as sources.
See an example in the article on Sucre, Bolivias
second capital
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Wikipedia Trick 1Hint

• Check links to be sure they still work AND to see
  if they have information that you need.

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Using WikipediaTrick 2

• If there are insufficient References and
  external links, try searching for key words from
  the article using a search engine, such as Yahoo!
  or Google.

See an example using the key words Pujllay
festival.
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Wikipedia Trick 1Hint

• If you find a source in another language that you
  think you can use, try copying the lines you want
  into an online translator such as Babelfish or
  Freetranslation.com to get the basic gist of the
  article.

Try translating a section from the Municipal
Government of Sucres website. Be sure you click
the Free Translation button on
Freetranslation.com and that you choose Spanish
to English for both.
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Wikipedia Trick 2Hint

• Not all sources that come up in your search will
  be helpful or reliable. First check the
  descriptions provided in the search results to
  determine if the site might have information you
  could use.

Sources with excessive ads, with no date of
publication or updates, and/or with no one to
take credit for the information are unlikely to
contain reliable information. That is, anyone
could have made them up.
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Wikipedia Trick 2Hint

• Personal webpages, including blogs and student
  research projects, do not count as valid sources.

Any address containing myspace, blogspot,
geocities, angelfire, or xanga, for example,
would therefore not be an acceptable source.
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Citing Your Source

• CitationMachine.net will do everything for you...

...after you find all of the information you need.
Go ahead and open Citation Machine in a separate
window when you have found a source you want to
use.
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Citing Your Sources

• Once in Citation Machine, select MLA.

Then select what type of source you are using
(for this project, most likely a webpageunder
non-print).
You will then need to locate your author, page
title, site title, publishing date, organization,
and URL.
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Find Your Information

• At the top, you will find

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Find Your Information

• At the bottom, you will find

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Almost Done!

• Click Submit once youve filled in the proper
  information, and the site makes your source
  citation for you!

Just be sure you copy and paste the FIRST
citation itll make formatting easier later.