1. Open Noodletools. Bookmark this on your toolbar.
2. Register for a Noodletools account using your ASW email.
a. Click on LOGIN. Click on register. Enter your ASW email
b. U: warsaw P:library
c. For phone number use 1234
3. Create a new project. Name it. Choose MLA as your default style. Choose the junior level.
4. To start creating creating your citation, click on SOURCES then click on +Create a new citation (green button)
5. If you don't understand something, click in the box and an explanation will pop up.
6. Also see the MLA Guide button in the upper right hand page for an example of how to cite the source.
7. Export your Works Cited page to a google doc or word doc.
Book:
Skill: Using the ISBN function
1. You want to cite a book called The Ancient World Rome by Pat Levy and Sean Sheehan.
2. Copy the ISBN found on the back of the book (0817250573) and then put it in the ISBN box at the top of Noodletools.
3. Import the data
4. Check it. Fix any errors you find (omit city, check capitalization)
5. Cool feature: Click in any box and it tells you what to do.
Notice: You do not include the city of publication anymore so delete Austin, Texas.
Photograph from Image Quest
Skill: copy/paste function
1. Go to the ASW Database list. Click on ImageQuest. Open in a NEW tab.
2. Use any search word. Choose any picture. Find the citation (click at the bottom of the screen) .
4. In Noodletools, click on +Create new citation. Find the Copy and Paste function at the top of the screen.
5. Copy and paste it into Noodletools. Proofread for any errors or glitches.
A Website
Skill: manually entering data yourself
1. Go to a website that interests you or might be used in your class.
2. Now be a detective and enter all the information yourself: The value of this is that it forces you to evaluate the source as you do this (students ask what if there is no author or corporate sponsor?)
Author
Date written
Name of website
URL
Access date (click on today)
5. Check it to make sure it is accurate.
SUPER CHALLENGE: YouTube
Skill: Finding the right tab, citing a source that may be posted in various places
1. Find any YOUTUBE that interests you.
2. Put the information into Noodletools under Website: Film or Video Recording.
3. Make sure you include the name of the person who uploaded the video.
4. Check it to make sure it is accurate
EXPORT your MLA8 Bibliography
Finished? EXPORT your bibliography as a word document.
