Research Guides

General Research Guide

This general guide, created for all students, provides guidance for any research project:

• General Research Guide in Word 2003 Format
• General Research Guide in PDF Format

I.B. Extended Essay Guide

This guide for is for I.B. Diploma students who are writing the extended essay. Please note that the schedule provided in the guide is for those seniors who are graduating in 2010.

• I.B. Extended Essay Guide in Word 2003 Format
• I.B. Extended Essay Guide in PDF Format

Links to Help You Learn How to Research

These sites provide information about how to do research. If you are looking for good sites to help you search for information about particular topics, click one of the Research Links on the left of this page, consult the last page of the General Research Guide (links are at the top of this page), or go to the Resources page.

Brainstorming

This site offers many different ways to brainstorm.

• Brainstorming Ideas, from The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Citing Your Sources

This site provides comprehensive guides for the major citation styles.

• APA, MLA & Turabian Citation Guides, from Tallahassee Community College Library

The following sites may help you format your citations. Please note, using these online citation generators is not a guarantee that your citations are correct! Always check the formatting to ensure that your citations are done correctly.

• Bibme Bibliography Maker
• Citation Machine Citation Creator

Paraphrasing

Examples of paraphrasing are shown on the following webpages:

• Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words, from The OWL at Purdue
• Tutorial on Paraphrasing, from Dalhousie University
• Examples of Plagiarism, from Princeton University
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It, from Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana Univesity at Bloomington

Writing a Thesis Statement

These sites show how to write a thesis statement or provide examples of good and bad thesis statements:

• How To Write a Thesis Statement, from Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana Univesity at Bloomington
• Thesis Statements, from The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Thesis Statement, from the Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
• Guide to Writing Thesis Statements, from the Writing Center, University of Washington
• Thesis Statements: Some Examples, from the English Compostion 2009 Syallabus, Palomar College