Noodle Tools helps you:

• Organize your thoughts in an outline.• Link sources to your work so you can (A)

support your thesis or argument and (B) give credit to people whose work you are using.

• Create note cards of any size that become the backbone of your paper.

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Enter research question and thesis statement. Your thesis statement is your argument.

You can “hang” your note cards on the outline “tree.” This helps you bring data (note cards) together with your argument

(outline).

Manage your outline with these buttons. You can “promote” (make more important) or “demote” (make less important) any of the “branches” on the tree. You may also move the branches up and down. Play with this control panel. It comes in handy as you learn

from your research.

Outline “tree.” Build your

outline here.

Outline in Noodle Tools Software

Your outline is the heart of your project.

Outline in Noodle Tools Software

Fill up each “bucket” completely.Don’t allow buckets to “leak.”

Buckets may contain multiple note cards.

This is where you put borrowed ideas or direct quotations or “cut/paste”

from the web.

This is where you put your own ideas. This is where you write 90% of your paper. This is the bulk of

the writing that you transfer through the RTF.

Note Cards

Write your paper here.

Enter in-text citations.

WARNING! BE CAREFUL! The “Paraphrase or Summary” box may be

smaller than the “Direct Quotation” box, but you will normally type much more into the

“Paraphrase and Summary” box. That is where you are building your research paper.

When you do the “RTF transfer,” you should see more of this “Paraphrase or Summary” text than of anything else. Fill it up. Put your in-text citations here

so you have them when you do the RTF transfer.

This is your link from your note card to your source. You have confidence that you have good information

in your research paper. (Choose good sources!)

"The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863." www.archives.gov. National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2014. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html.

Works Cited entry (Web):

8. URL (Universal Resource Locator)

(Information on Web has seven or eight parts.)

6. Medium of publication

7. Date you

viewed the web

site

5. Date of publication…if

provided

4. Organization (Publisher of the site)

3.Domain name. (Name of the Web

site)

2. Article title (in quotation marks)

1. Author’s last name…if provided

1. Author…if provided

2. Article title in quotation marks. 3.Domain name (Name of Web site)

4. Organization/Publisher

5. Date of publication

6. Medium

7. Date you viewed the web site

8. URL

NOODLE TOOLS DATA ENTRY_Web

Print out this page and have it by your side when making entries.

Works Cited entry (book):(Information on book has SIX parts.)  

Davidson, James West, and Michael B. Stoff. America: History of Our Nation. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. Print.

1. Author

2. Title

3. Location of Publication

4. Company that published the

book

5. Date book was published

6. Medium. Book is “print” medium.

1. Author

2. Title

3. Location of publication company

4. Company that published the book5. Date book

published

6. Medium. Book is “print” medium.

NOODLE TOOLS DATA ENTRY_Book

Print out this page and have it by your side when making entries.

How do I move all my information from my outline to my actual research paper?

Outline

This is the first step of the “RTF transfer.”

Click this last one.“RTF” means “rich text format.” This is a simple format from which you can copy and paste easily

into Google docs or Microsoft Word.

Click “submit.”

Copy and paste this text into your Google doc or

Microsoft Word doc.

How do I put all my Works Cited (“Bibliography”) entries into my research paper?

Copy and paste.

In-text citations:

Last name of author.Always the preferred

in-text citation.

“Title”

NOTHING ELSE ALLOWED!

OR Quotation Marks

Example of book citation in the text of your paper:

 Example:The earliest settlers in North America were influenced by natural resources and climate (Davidson and Stoff 14). Give last name of author(s) and the page number.

Notice location of period after the citation.

Put citation at end of the sentence.

Example of Web citation in the text of your paper: Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January, 1863 (“Emancipation Proclamation”). 

Article title in quotation marks.

Give last name of author (if available). If author not available, then use article title.

Never use domain name for the in-text citation.

Alpha Code

Alpha Code

• In-text citation is a code based on letters.• The in-text citation letters must match the

Works Cited letters…letter for letter.

Book Citation…Alpha Code

• In text citation

(Davidson and Stoff 33)

• Works Cited entry

Davidson, James W. and Michael A. Stoff…

Web citation…Alpha Code

• In text citation

(“Penguin Life”)

• Works Cited entry

“Penguin Life in the Arctic”…

Search Tips for Web:

• Good sites (make you look good)• Use “+” for key words• Use quotation marks for “key phrase”• Name best type of site: .edu or .org or .gov• Use Command F to find specific words

inside a URL.

Visit Ms. Sereena Hamm for ideas.

• Use web sites that you trust.

• If you quote a work directly, put the quoted words in quotation marks and use proper punctuation. For example:

Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls” (“American Crisis”).

If you would like to see in-depth information regarding MLA format, visit:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Or simply type “MLA OWL” into your search engine.

For questions or ideas regarding Noodle Tools,

please see

Thomas Hagerty or Sereena Hamm

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