MLA PowerPoint Bibliography and Note Cards

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MLA PowerPoint Bibliography and Note Cards

• How to create electronic source cards and
  notecard.

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Instructions

• This PowerPoint outlines the use of electronic
  note taking techniques you will use for your
  research project.

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Instructions

• Electronic bibliography cards and note-cards
  can easily be sorted by going to view and
  choosing slide sorter. Highlight and drag
  cards into the order needed. This helps you
  create an outline easily and quickly.

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Instructions

• You may print out cards as individual pages, or
  choose handouts on the print screen to print
  several to a page.
• It is also easier to copy and paste direct
  quotes.
• Your source is easily identified for citation
  purposes.

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Setting up your cards

• Every time you choose a source, make a source
  card. You can complete your MLA citation using
  an online bibliography creator like bibme.org or
  easybib.com
• http//www.bibme.org/
• http//www.easybib.com/cite/view

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Setting up your citation

• Directions for creating citations for your cards
  using bibme.org and easybib.com

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Setting up your cards

• Choose Website
• Paste the URL into the space provided
• Click Load info or Cite this

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Setting up your cards
Bibme.org

• Click Add to My Bibliography
• or
• Click Create Citation

Easybib.com
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Setting up your cards

• Copy citation

Bibme.org
Easybib.com
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Setting up your cards Sample source citation

• Stovall, James G.. Writing for the Mass Media
  (7th Edition). Boston, MA Allyn Bacon, 2008.

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Setting up your cards

• Choose one of these 2 layouts for your cards

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Setting up your cards

• Once you have the citation, copy it and paste it
  into a slide at the top or on the side, depending
  on the layout you have chosen.
• Note the split screen option tends to be easier.

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Setting up your cards Sample source citation
split screen

• Stovall, James G.. Writing for the Mass Media
  (7th Edition). Boston, MA Allyn Bacon, 2008.

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Setting up your cards

• This will serve as a source card.
• Now, when you take notes, you will simply make a
  duplicate slide and put your notes under the
  source.

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Setting up your cards sample notecards

• Stovall, James G.. Writing for the Mass Media
  (7th Edition). Boston, MA Allyn Bacon, 2008.
• Sampling first gained hold as musical practice
  called dub, created by Jamaican musicians in
  the 1960s. (p.202)

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Setting up your cards sample notecards split
screen

• Stovall, James G.. Writing for the Mass Media
  (7th Edition). Boston, MA Allyn Bacon, 2008.

• Sampling first gained hold as musical practice
  called dub, created by Jamaican musicians in
  the 1960s. (p.202)

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Setting up your cards by topic

• As you take notes, you can use the header of the
  slide to identify the subject/topic of your note
  for sorting into an outline later.

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Topic Sampling

• Stovall, James G.. Writing for the Mass Media
  (7th Edition). Boston, MA Allyn Bacon, 2008.
• Sampling first gained hold as musical practice
  called dub, created by Jamaican musicians in
  the 1960s. (p.202)

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Sorting Cards

• You can later sort your cards according to topic
  to create an outline.

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Sorting Slides

• At the bottom of the PowerPoint screen, click on
  the 2nd viewer. It is the one that has 4 panes
  to represent slides.
• The Screen will look like this

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Sorting Cards

• Click on the slide you want to move.
• It will be outlined.
• Simply drag the slide where you want it in your
  outline.
• (You can also drag the slide on the left side of
  the viewer window, but this sometimes is more
  difficult.)

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Making An Outline

• On the left side of your screen, if you click
  outline you will see the slides in outline
  format.

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Saving an Outline

• Go to file, click print. Choose Outline from the
  drop down menu under Print What.

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Saving an Outline as a PDF file.

• Instead of printing, click on PDF, choose save as
  PDF.

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Saving an Outline as a PDF file.

• Choose Use .pdf. You now have a saved outline.