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2009 7th ed. MLA Handbook updates

Williams College MLA, 6th ed.

A user-friendly version by Falcon teachers, but DOES NOT contain newest MLA updates.
Information on taking notes, outlining and a sample paper are included.

Valuable Research Tools

Author Diana Hacker's "Tips for Evaluating Sources"
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"Excellent links for English, Social Sciences, History and Science projects."

Literary Sources on the Net
A website maintained by a Rutgers University professor - Contains excellent website to literary genres, authors, countries, etc.

Read Online
This site contains about one thousand books from hundreds of authors. The collection’s categories are: fictions/novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays from well-known authors such as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen... and more. This link also includes some of the greatest novels of the 20th Century and works by Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning authors.

New Library Media Acquisitions
Coming Soon

Additional resources will be added periodically.

Lisa Goldberg
Library Media Teacher
Torrey Pines High School
858-755-0125, ext, 2246
lisa.goldberg@sduhsd.net

Library Hours:
Mon, Wed, Fri	7:15am-2:45pm
Tues	7:15am-3:45pm
Thurs	9:00am-3:45pm

Times are posted if hours change.

"Knowledge Itself is Power." - Francis Bacon

Start with the best online resources and eliminate wasteful searches. To do this, you must begin with reliable, current, verifiable sources. Our specialized online subscriptions, found on this page, provide a wealth of authoritative resources and contain more than 5,000 e(electronic) reference books and novels.

Why bother with the Torrey Pines Research Links when Wikipedia or Google are available for assignments?
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Wikis are open sources and can created or edited by anyone in the world, whether biased or expert. Anyone, from a neighbor across the street with inaccurate information to a university professor can create cyberpages. Metasearch engines, such as Google, do not evaluate.