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Grade 8 Essential Research Skills: Getting Started on Research

Libguide to support the grade 8 Essential Research Skills unit

Know Where to Find our CAC Databases

This libguide is full of resources to help you complete your research for this unit. Some of those resources are subscription databases for which you will need log in credentials. If you are a CAC student, access these by:

1. Go to library.cacegypt.org

2. Click on MHS Library

3. Login (in the top right corner) with your CAC Google Account.

4. The Databases are listed on the Homepage

Cite your Sources Using One of These Sites

PAARC

PAARC poster 

Use PAARC to evaluate your sources. Always look for the highest quality information for your academic writing. 

Useful Websites about Referencing and Plagiarism

Citing Your Sources

Students and scholars cite their sources to

- provide readers more information on the topic

- provide evidence of serious scholarly thinking

- demonstrate academic honesty

Your bibliography will be included after your paper, but that does not mean that you will do it last. Keep track of your sources as you go along! Otherwise, you may end up having to recreate your research to locate the sources you used originally. 

What to cite?

You must cite:

  • an author's ideas, logic and analysis
  • original facts
  • data that is not common knowledge
  • unique wording