Library

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library” – Albert Einstein

Research

TLDSB subscribes to a few online research periodicals or search engines that can assist you when conducting social science, history, and English research, particularly for essay and report writing. These are mostly secondary sources that have been fact checked or vetted.

• The CRAAP test – helps you decide how good your source is.
• Gale – complete source for peer reviewed scholarly articles across all academic disciplines.
• Explore a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events through topic overviews, news, and multimedia content.
• JSTOR – an online academic digital library with access to millions of academic journal articles, books and images.
• Stats Canada – the national statistical office. The agency ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada’s economy, society and environment that they need to function effectively as citizens and decision makers. Anyone can use this source.
• McLeans Magazine Archive – Full access to past issues of Canada’s magazine covering a broad range of topics from science, social issues, politics, and history.

Essay writing format and style guides

Most secondary school students and all university or college students need to know how to avoid plagiarism and academic dishonesty by properly formatting and citing their references for any research essay, novel study, or social science research report.

• These Purdue University – OWL resources will help you sort out how to conduct and cite your research. This includes material on quoting and paraphrasing your research sources, as well as material on how to avoid plagiarism. OWL offers comprehensive, step-by-step instructions, samples and how to videos for APA, Chicago and MLA styles of formatting. They also have lots of tips on researching papers and writing them.
• Scribrr citation generator is a reliable one which will provide up-to-date suggestions to assist you.
• APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to set up, format, and reference cite sources for social sciences (i.e. Law, Sociology, Psychology). The APA is currently using the 7th edition of the manual.
• The Chicago Manual of Style – Find it. Write it. Cite it. The current 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.
• MLA style is a set of standards for writing and documentation used by writers to find and evaluate information, alert their audience to the trustworthiness of their findings through citation, and shape the expression of their ideas in conversation with others. This 9th edition is your other source for the format for a Works Cited page. This style is usually used in English and literature classes.